Close to shore the terrifying shark attacks of 1916
Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916.
| Main Author: | Capuzzo, Mike. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Crown Publishers,
2003.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Last man in the water
- Let us do justice to sharks
- Missile of teeth
- Train to the coast
- Sea monster
- Nightmare of centuries
- Detection and concealment
- Distance swimmers
- "He's a big fellow and awful hungry"
- Out of the water
- Arrival of a man-eater
- Myths of antiquity
- Long-range cruising rogue
- Shark scare
- Hunger of madness
- creek
- Uneven battle
- "I thought it was going to swallow me"
- To see its body drawn up on the shore
- Shark emergency
- Fishing
- Shark would endure
- Epilogue.