Snakehead: A fish out of water by Eric Jay Dolin, Smithsonian Institution Press, £18.95/$24.95, ISBN 1588341542 Reviewed by Adrian Barnett
“IN A pond where it didn’t belong/ Lived a snakehead as big as King Kong./ It ate all the fishes and said ‘How delicious’/ But now I’ll be moseyin’ along.”
Accompanied by pictures of a huge fish terrorising a fisherman and then being attacked by jet planes, this limerick appeared in The Washington Post on 7 July 2002. Also the subject of cartoons and song, the snakehead, a voracious south-east Asian fish, is the eponymous anti-hero of Eric Jay Dolin’s…
