Natural history meets a wildlife-smuggling investigation
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Natural history meets a wildlife-smuggling investigation
Craig Welch frames an unusual chapter of marine-life history through the pursuit of the geoduck, an exceptionally large clam, and the law-enforcement effort to stop its illegal trade. The book brings together the creature’s place in nature with a two-year chase involving wildlife police and a central figure drawn into the smuggling operation. Its subject sits where ecological resources, lucrative demand, and criminal enforcement intersect, making the geoduck itself as essential to the account as the people pursuing and policing it.
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A unique blend of natural history and crime drama, Shell Games by Craig Welch is a riveting tale of rogues, scoundrels, and the hunt for nature's bounty in the tradition of The Orchid Thief. A stranger-than-fiction true story centered around a larger-than-life character who pursued a larger-than-life clam--the Geoduck--and then led wildlife police on a two-year-long chase, Shell Games is enthralling and remarkable from page one on.
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