The Gospel of the Eels
A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Gospel of the Eels is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish-the eel-and a reflection on the human condition.
lieferbar
versandkostenfrei
Buch (Kartoniert)
13.40 €
- Lastschrift, Kreditkarte, Paypal, Rechnung
- Kostenlose Rücksendung
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „The Gospel of the Eels “
The Gospel of the Eels is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish-the eel-and a reflection on the human condition.
Klappentext zu „The Gospel of the Eels “
I can't recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I can't remember us speaking at all. Maybe because we never did.'The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of the strangest creatures nature ever created. Remarkably little is known about the eel, even today. What we do know is that it's born as a tiny willow-leaf shaped larva in the Sargasso Sea, travels on the ocean currents toward the coasts of Europe - a journey of about four thousand miles that takes at least two years. Upon arrival, it transforms itself into a glass eel and then into a yellow eel before it wanders up into fresh water. It lives a solitary life, hiding from both light and science, for ten, twenty, fifty years, before migrating back to the sea in the autumn, morphing into a silver eel and swimming all the way back to the Sargasso Sea, where it breeds and dies.
And yet . . . There is still so much we don't know about eels. No human has ever seen eels reproduce; no one can give a complete account of the eel's metamorphoses or say why they are born and die in the Sargasso Sea; no human has even seen a mature eel in the Sargasso Sea. Ever. And now the eel is disappearing, and we don't know exactly why.
What we do know is that eels and their mysterious lives captivate us.
This is the basis for The Gospel of the Eels, Patrik Svensson's quite unique natural science memoir; his ongoing fascination with this secretive fish, but also the equally perplexing and often murky relationship he shared with his father, whose only passion in life was fishing for this obscure creature.
Through the exploration of eels in literature (Günter Grass and Graham Swift feature, amongst others) and the history of science (we learn about Aristotle's and Sigmund Freud's complicated relationships with eels) as well as modern marine biology (Rachel Carson and others) we get to know this peculiar animal. In this exploration, we also learn
... mehr
about the human condition, life and death, through natural science and nature writing at its very best.
As Patrik Svensson concludes: 'by writing about eels, I have in some ways found my way home again.'
As Patrik Svensson concludes: 'by writing about eels, I have in some ways found my way home again.'
... weniger
Autoren-Porträt von Patrik Svensson
Patrik Svensson (b. 1972) is an arts and culture journalist at Sydsvenskan newspaper. He lives with his family in Malmö in southern Sweden. The Gospel of the Eels is his first book.Agnes Broomé is a literary translator and Preceptor in Scandinavian at Harvard University. With a PhD in Translation Studies, her translations include August Prize winners The Expedition by Bea Uusma and The Gospel of Eels by Patrik Svensson.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Patrik Svensson
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2021, Main Market Ed., 256 Seiten, Maße: 13,2 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Agnes Broomé
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1529030706
- ISBN-13: 9781529030709
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
The best mysteries are those science hasn't yet cracked, and top of the list comes the sex life of eels. Melanie Reid The Times
Kommentar zu "The Gospel of the Eels"
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "The Gospel of the Eels".
Kommentar verfassen