Download e-book for iPad: Return of the Gar (Southwestern Nature Writing Series) by Mark Spitzer

By Mark Spitzer

ISBN-10: 1574415999

ISBN-13: 9781574415995

The alligator gar belongs to a family members of fish that has remained essentially unchanged because the Cretaceous, over a hundred million years in the past. Its intimidating measurement and plethora of enamel have made it demonized all through its diversity in North the United States, leading to pointless killing. huge oil spills in its breeding variety haven't helped its inhabitants both. Interspersing technological know-how, folklore, historical past, and action-packed fishing narratives, Spitzer's empathy for and fascination with this air-breathing, armored fish offers for an interesting odyssey that examines administration efforts to maintain and propagate the alligator gar within the usa. Spitzer additionally travels to principal the US, Thailand, and Mexico to evaluate the worldwide gar scenario. He displays on what's and is not operating in compromised environments, then makes a case for conservation in line with own adventure and a love for wildness for its personal sake. This colourful portrait of the alligator gar can function a metaphor and size for the way forward for our biodiversity in the course of a time of planetary crisis.

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