The Devil's Teeth

Subtitle:: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
Author:: Susan Casey
Format:: Softcover

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Short description

A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators-and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them.

Long description

Since Jaws scared a nation of moviegoers out of the water three decades ago, great white sharks have attained a mythical status as the most frightening and mysterious monsters to still live among us. Each fall, just twenty-seven miles off the San Francisco coast, in the waters surrounding a desolate rocky island chain, the world's largest congregation of these fearsome predators gathers to feed. Journalist Susan Casey first saw the great whites of the Farallones in a television documentary. Within months, she was sitting with the program's two scientists in a small motorboat as the sharks - some as long as twenty feet, as wide as a semitrailer - circled around them. From this first encounter, Casey became obsessed with these awe-inspiring creatures, and a plan was hatched for her to join the scientists and follow their research. The Devil's Teeth is the riveting account of that one fateful shark season. An exhilarating adventure story, The Devil's Teeth offers a glimpse into a violent, uncivilized world ruled by nature's most powerful and mysterious predators, a world where man is neither wanted nor needed.

Product details

Publisher:: Owl Books (NY)
ISBN:: 9780805080117
Publication date:: May 2006
Length:: 210mm
Width:: 141mm
Thickness:: 22mm
Weight:: 308g
Pages:: 291
Illustrations:: Illustrated
Illustrated:: Illustrated

Review

THE ADVENTURE STORY GUARANTEED TO SCARE PEOPLE
RIGHT OUT OF THE WATER. --The Associated Press
A Widely Acclaimed Bestseller
- A New York Times bestseller
- A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
- A Book Sense bestseller
- A 2005 NPR Summer Reading selection
- A Men's Journal Top-10 Read
- A Barnes and Noble Discover selection
- A Book Sense selection
Praise from coast to coast for The Devil's Teeth :
It's Jaws meets Adaptation. -- The Wall Street Journal
Chilling . . . A lively and detailed account. -- USA Today
[A] page-turner . . . The book gives you a way of reaching these mysterious isles without getting wet. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Casey delivers amazing details . . . The Devil's Teeth will surely satisfy your appetite for all things fanged and finned. -- National Geographic Adventure