| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 167 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Getting a garfish -- In search of massive Missouri gar -- Gar and loathing in Texahoma -- Gator vs. gar : a history of misinformation -- The existential fish-life crisis (or how I finally got a gar) -- When gars attack -- Some messy Nessie gar myths and other distortions -- Mutant gar is missing link -- How I finally bagged the big one -- Frankengar -- Gar in the balance : Texas, the trinity, and the homosexual rod and reel -- Arkansas gar wrangling : out of sight, out of mind -- A psychological history of the Arkansas alligator gar with recommendations for its future : a polemic -- Long live the gar! |
| Summary |
Mark Spitzer is assistant professor of writing at the University of Central Arkansas, managing editor of the Exquisite Corpse Annual, and a lifelong, passionate fisherman. He's the author of a number of novels, story collections, poetry, and translations, and a past resident of Paris's famous Shakespeare and Company bookstore. He was a recent guest and gar guide on a television episode of Animal Planet's River Monsters |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Alligator gar -- Gulf States
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Fishes -- Gulf States
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NATURE -- Animals -- Fish.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ichthyology & Herpetology.
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NATURE -- General.
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Alligator gar
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Fishes
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United States -- Gulf States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009053364 |
| ISBN |
9781610753661 |
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1610753666 |
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