The devil's teeth : a true story of obsession and survival among America's great white sharks (Book, 2005) [Texas Group Catalog]
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The devil's teeth : a true story of obsession and survival among America's great white sharks

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

Author: Susan Casey
Publisher: New York : H. Holt, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Print book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Anecdotes
Named Person: Susan Casey; Susan Casey
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Susan Casey
ISBN: 080507581X 9780805075816 9780805080117 0805080112
OCLC Number: 57134599
Description: 291 pages : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Responsibility: Susan Casey.

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A vivid dispatch from an otherworldly out-post, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed. This book is about Susan Casey, Scot  Read more...
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