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...
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New York :
H. Holt,
2005.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Casey, Susan, |d 1962- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The devil's teeth : |b a true story of obsession and survival among America's great white sharks / |c Susan Casey. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b H. Holt, |c 2005. | ||
| 300 | |a 291 p. : |b col. ill., map ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-288). | ||
| 520 | |a 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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| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Casey, Susan, |d 1962- |
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