The devil's teeth : a true story of obsession and survival among America's great white sharks / Susan Casey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casey, Susan, 1962-

Contributor:

Casey, Susan, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White shark--California--Farallon Islands--Anecdotes.

White shark.

California--Farallon Islands.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : H. Holt, 2005.

Summary:

Journalist Casey first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, some longer than twenty feet, swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. In a few months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island, just 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco--dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a 135-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close, and she was hooked.--From publisher description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

080507581X

OCLC:

57134599