Author Name: Capuzzo, Michael
Title: Close to Shore
Binding: Black Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Size: 8vo
Publisher: London, United Kingdom Headline Book Publishing Ltd 2001
ISBN Number: 0747274673 / 9780747274674
Seller ID: 002911
xii, 317pp., map. illus. eps., biblio. Minor wear to spine, boards, edgewear, rubbing to unclipped dj. 'As the idle rich thronged the palatial hotels of the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1916, America was at its most self-confident. But the world's first industrial superpower was about to receive a series of terrifying shocks. Sharks, it was believed, were simply not man-eaters, so when a lone Great White shark, driven inshore by freak climatic conditions, began to develop a taste for human flesh, America went into total denial. Only after the most horrific attacks was the truth admitted - and an unprecedented national frenzy forced President Woodrow Wilson to mobilize the US Navy in an attempt to put nature back in its place. Combining biology, history and adventure, this is the first book on the events that pitted 20th-century technology against an ancient, mythic enemy and became the model for Peter Benchley's Jaws.' [47]
ZOOLOGY HISTORY JAWS FISHES NATURE MARINE LIFE
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