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- Season of the Gar: Adventures in Pursuit of America's Most Misunderstood Fish
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
summary
Season of the Gar is a fang-infested, monster-headed, armor-plated romp through the prehistoric swamps and murky rivers of America’s most feared and demonized fish. Follow Mark Spitzer on his lengthy and often frustrating quest from Texas and Louisiana, Missouri, and Arkansas to catch his own gar. Read about his sometimes bizarre angling adventures in search of this air-breathing freshwater giant (up to ten feet in length and well over three hundred pounds) as he separates fact from fiction. Spitzer draws on folklore, science, history, his own pet gar, and even gar recipes to tell this unique and exciting literary eco-tale about a fish that has inspired imaginations for centuries, a fish many have hated, a fish many have thrown on the shore to die.
Table of Contents
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- Gar Images
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- p. xv
- 1. Getting a Garfish
- pp. 1-16
- 2. In Search of Massive Missouri Gar
- pp. 17-25
- 3. Gar and Loathing in Texahoma
- pp. 27-35
- 4. Gator vs. Gar
- pp. 37-42
- 5. The Existential Fish-Life Crisis
- pp. 43-52
- 6. When Gars Attack
- pp. 53-57
- 8. Mutant Gar Is Missing Link
- pp. 65-68
- 9. How I Finally Bagged the Big One
- pp. 69-76
- 10. Frankengar
- pp. 77-83
- 11. Gar in the Balance
- pp. 85-103
- 12. Arkansas Gar Wrangling
- pp. 105-115
- 14. Long Live the Gar!
- pp. 143-156
- Gar Recipes
- pp. 157-167
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610753661
Related ISBN(s)
9781557289292
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
769187856
Pages
185
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No