The devil's teeth a true story of obsession and survival among America's great white sharks
Journalist Casey first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, some longer than twenty feet, swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. In a few months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon...
| Main Author: | Casey, Susan, 1962- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
H. Holt,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
Journalist Casey first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, some longer than twenty feet, swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. In a few months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island, just 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco--dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a 135-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close, and she was hooked.--From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: |
291 p. : col. ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-288). |
| ISBN: |
080507581X |
| Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |