TY - BOOK DB - /z-wcorg/ DP - http://worldcat.org ID - 57134599 LA - English T1 - The devil's teeth : a true story of obsession and survival among America's great white sharks A1 - Casey, Susan,, PB - H. Holt CY - New York Y1 - 2005/// SN - 080507581X 9780805075816 9780805080117 0805080112 AB - 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. ER -