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A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
Holt Paperbacks
June 2006
On Sale: May 30, 2006
304 pages
ISBN: 0805080112
EAN: 9780805080117
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Non-Fiction
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 Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the
great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins
swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These
sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty
feet, and there were too many to count; even more
incredible, this congregation was taking place just
twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of 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-dubbed by
sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined
Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk
down during shark season each fall in the island's one
habitable building, a haunted, 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 instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to
obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But
as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had
no way of preparing for what she would find among the
dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every
campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years. The Devil's Teeth is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly
outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society
and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.
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