Hemingway, Hunter of Men: Flirting with Disaster

Chapter 6

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The reefs of the Bahamas and the North Coast of Cuba “belong” to a dominant predator, the barracuda, and in those waters the flesh of barracuda contains a neurotoxin called ciguatera. Remarkably this has not stopped Cubans an…