Close to shore : the terrifying shark attacks of 1916 /
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Crown Publishers, 2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 140 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0375822313 (trade)
- 0375922318 (lib. bdg.)
- 597.3/1566 21
- QL638.93 .C36 2003
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JNF | Chamberlin Free Public Library | Nonfiction | J 597.3 CAP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | QL638.93 .C36 2003 | 1 | Available | 34517000357577 |
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.
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