Close to shore :
Capuzzo, Mike.
Close to shore : the terrifying shark attacks of 1916 / - 1st ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, 2003. - 140 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Adaptation of: Close to shore. New York : Broadway Books, c2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-139).
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.
Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916.
0375822313 (trade) 0375922318 (lib. bdg.)
2002029918
Shark attacks--Juvenile literature.
Shark attacks--History--New Jersey--Juvenile literature.
Shark attacks.
Sharks.
QL638.93 / .C36 2003
597.3/1566
Close to shore : the terrifying shark attacks of 1916 / - 1st ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, 2003. - 140 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Adaptation of: Close to shore. New York : Broadway Books, c2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-139).
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.
Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916.
0375822313 (trade) 0375922318 (lib. bdg.)
2002029918
Shark attacks--Juvenile literature.
Shark attacks--History--New Jersey--Juvenile literature.
Shark attacks.
Sharks.
QL638.93 / .C36 2003
597.3/1566