by Michael Capuzzo
Well researched and well written. Better than the movie, Jaws. The real story. Highly recommended.
"Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.During t...
The detailed retelling of the shark attacks (and additional shark information) makes for compelling reading, but the other half of this book is a dull history lesson of the life and times of New Jersey in the early 1900s.
What makes this book particularly interesting is the period detail: the mores, the social habits, life ( at least along the eastern seaboard among the fairly wealthy.) The author follows the shark as it meanders up the coast ( something that annoyed me was attribution of motivation to the shark, but...
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