The Gospel of the Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World...

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Patrik Svensson Alex Wyndham

The Gospel of the Eels

Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

Patrik Svensson, Alex Wyndham

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Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
14 May 2020

Zoology & animal sciences

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 and that its life cycle includes many metamorphoses, a four-thousand mile journey to Europe’s rivers and a return to its place of birth to breed and die.

And yet ... There is still so much we don’t know about eels; no one can give a complete account of the eel’s metamorphoses or say why they are born and die in the Sargasso Sea.

This is the basis for Patrik Svensson’s 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 as well as modern marine biology, we get to know this peculiar animal, and in this exploration, also learn about the human condition, life and death, through natural science and nature writing at its very best.

By: Patrik Svensson
Read by: Alex Wyndham
Imprint: Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Simultaneous Release
Dimensions: Height: 134mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 171g
ISBN: 9781529048636
ISBN 10: 152904863X
Publication Date: 14 May 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Patrik Svensson is an arts and culture journalist at Sydsvenskan newspaper. He lives with his family in Malmö, Sweden. The Gospel of Eels is his first book. Alex Wyndham is an English actor and experienced voiceover artist who graduated from Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He has voiced everything from Apple iPad campaigns to numerous audiobooks including Deadly Peril (2016), The Perfect King (2018) and Transcendence and Rebellion (2019). Alex has also starred in several BBC and HBO shows, including the Emmy Award-winning Rome (2007) and Little Dorrit (2008).

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The Gospel of the Eels

Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

Patrik Svensson, Alex Wyndham

$39.95

Audio

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