The Book Of Eels by Tom Fort


Authors
Tom Fort
ISBN
9780007115921
Published
Released
01 / 11 / 2005
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Dimensions
141 x 222mm

What has been the dish of kings, the subject of myths and the undertaker of epic and mysterious journeys? The eel.

Beginning life in the Sargasso Sea, the eel travels across the ocean, lives for 20 or so years, and then is driven by some instinct back across the ocean to spawn and die. And the next generation starts the story again. No one knows why the eels return, or how the orphaned eels learn their way back out. One man discovered, after many adventures, the breeding ground of all eels - and he is the hero of this book.

Eels were being caught and consumed 5,000 years before the birth of Christ - Aristotle and Pliny wrote about them; Romans regarded them as a peerless delicacy; Egyptians accorded them semi-sacred status; English kings died of overeating them. There are many strange practices among eel fishers all over the world, and many great fortunes based upon the eel harvest.

'The Book Of Eels', a combination of social comment, biography and natural history, is also a fascinating and witty account of Tom Fort's obsession with the eel, his journeying to discover the eel in all its habitats, and the people he meets in its pursuit.
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