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Informationen zum Autor Mark Spitzer is an associate professor of writing at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including Season of the Gar: Adventures in Pursuit of America’s Most Misunderstood Fish and Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West (Nebraska, 2017). Spitzer has consulted for Nat Geo’s Monster Fish and appeared on Animal Planet’s River Monsters. Klappentext Mark Spitzer is an associate professor of writing at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of more than twenty-five books! including Season of the Gar: Adventures in Pursuit of America’s Most Misunderstood Fish and Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West (Nebraska! 2017). Spitzer has consulted for Nat Geo’s¿Monster Fish¿and appeared on Animal Planet’s¿River Monsters. ¿ ¿ Zusammenfassung Offers an action-packed, knee-slapping ride into and out of the belly of the beast. Join extreme angler Mark Spitzer as he encounters man-eating catfish, ruthless barracuda, lacerating conger eels, berserk tarpon, and blood-curdling sharks in locales as exotic as the Amazon, Catalonia, the Dominican Republic, and Senegal. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Demythologizing Demonologies: Snakeheads and Piranhas Rabid in the Amazon 2. Welsing for Colossals in Catfishalonia: A Hypothetical History 3. Cuda Chaos in the Dominican Republic: Only Beaten by the Waves 4. Sportfishing Gar: An Old Dog’s Failure Proves a Point 5. Monster-Fishing Shark Off Montauk: Reframing the Narratives of Fisheries and Ourselves 6. Monster Carp in France: In Pursuit of Fish without Borders 7. Bananas for Tarpon: A Matter of Timing in the Gambia and Beyond 8. Striking Gold in Senegal: One Monster Fish Leads to Another 9. Attack of the Italian Zander: Putting Back More Than We Take Out 10. Translating an Eely Ionian Monsterfest into Top Predator Decimation: More Than Just a Metaphor Conclusion: Fishery Solutions for the Disenlightenment Notes...
