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Author Name: Capuzzo, Michael
Title: Close to Shore - Abridged Audio Cassette
Book Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Random House 2001
ISBN Number: 0-553-52769-X / 9780553527698
Seller ID: 249
Used, Very Good audio book; Remainder mark on case; Abridged - 4 Cassettes; Approx. 6 Hours; Read by Len Cariou; Audio Tape; 4.5 x 7"; Unpaginated pages;
(FROM CASE) Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, "Close to Shore" brilliantly recreates 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 the summer before the United States entered World War I, when ocean swimming was just becoming popular and luxurious Jersey Shore resorts were thriving as a chic playland for an opulent yet still innocent era's new leisure class, Americans were abruptly introduced to the terror of sharks. In July of 1916 a lone great white left its usual deep ocean habitat and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the towns of Beach Haven and Spring Lake - and, incredibly, a farming community eleven miles inland - the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage: the first shark attacks on swimmers in U. S. History. For Americans celebrating an astonishing prosperous and peaceful epoch much like our own, fueled by the wizardry of revolutionary inventions, the arrival of this violent predator symbolized the limits of mankind's power against nature. Scrupulously researched and superbly written, "Close to Shore" brings to life a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history. Masterfully written and suffused with fascinating period detail and insights into the science and behavior of sharks, "Close to Shore" recounts a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history with startling immediacy.
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