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• Language: English
• Book Title: River Monsters
• Author: Wade, Jeremy

A tale of obsession and very big fish from Jeremy Wade, the presenter of ITV's
RIVER MONSTERS. Over ten feet long, it weighs in at nearly a quarter of a ton.
Covering its back are armoured plates made of bone. Five hundred stiletto-
sharp teeth line its long crocodilian jaws. It's a prehistoric beast of
staggering proportions; a fearsome creature from the time of the dinosaurs.
But the Alligator Gar, an air-breathing survivor from the Cretaceous period is
still with us today, patrolling inland rivers, hunting in murky waters shared
by human communities. And for Jeremy Wade, described as the 'greatest angling
explorer of his generation', the Gar and other outlandish freshwater predators
have been an obsession for all his adult life. With names like Arapaima,
Snakehead, Goonch, Goliath Tigerfish and Electric Eel, many of them have
acquired an almost mythical status. In a quest that has taken him from the
Amazon to the Congo, and from North America to the mountains of India, Wade
has pursued the truth about these little known, often misunderstood animals.
Along the way he's survived a plane crash, malaria and a fish-inflicted blow
to the chest that, according to a later scan, caused permanent scarring to his
heart. In RIVER MONSTERS, Wade delivers a sometimes jaw-dropping blend of
adventure, natural history, legend and detective work. It reads like a hunt
for the Loch Ness Monster. But it's all true. These are fisherman's tales like
you've never heard before. The stories of the ones that didn't get away ...
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