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The Book of Eels
by Patrik Svensson
The eel's mysterious life and the author's father, braided together: Aristotle, Freud, the Sargasso Sea and Swedish nights fishing. Quietly beautiful.
Read it if…
you want natural history and memoir in one.
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Skip it if…
you want a straight science book.
Try instead: The Songs of Trees →
Three things you will actually use
- Mystery endures.
- Fathers and rivers.
- Not everything is known.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the Sargasso.
Our verdict
Svensson's eels.
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