A review by somestuff
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson

3.0

highlights were def the history (loved the ira fishing rights, swedish clergy given fishing rights, mummified eels in sarcophagi and eels during initial colonization of america info) and science and the low points were the freud chapter (way too much freud for a book on eels tbh didn’t spend a chapter on every other researcher ever who had spent a year on eels so) and the section on literature about eels
but i had a good time and learned a lot abt what we’ve learned in the last 2 decades or so abt japanese eels
big plus is i’ll never forget the term sargasso sea again and will remember the stages of the eel  life cycle quite well now too