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Close to shore : the terrifying shark attacks of 1916 /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Crown Publishers, 2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 140 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0375822313 (trade)
  • 0375922318 (lib. bdg.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 597.3/1566 21
LOC classification:
  • QL638.93 .C36 2003
Online resources:
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.
Summary: Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
JNF 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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