Displaying 1 of 1 2003 Format: Book Author: Capuzzo, Michael. Title: Close to shore : the terrifying shark attacks of 1916 / Michael Capuzzo. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Crown Publishers, 2003. Description: 140 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Summary: Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916. Subjects: Shark attacks -- Juvenile literature. Shark attacks -- New Jersey -- History -- Juvenile literature. Notes: Adaptation of: Close to shore. New York : Broadway Books, c2001. Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-139). 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. Web Site: Sample text Contributor biographical information Publisher description LCCN: 2002029918 ISBN: 0375822313 9780375822315 0375922318 9780375922312 Other Number: 50422928 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 227323 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: j 597.315 Capuzzo Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
