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CLOSE TO SHORE.

CLOSE TO SHORE.

CLOSE TO SHORE.
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CLOSE TO SHORE.

by CAPUZZO, MICHAEL:

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FINE./NFINE.
ISBN 10
0747274673
ISBN 13
9780747274674
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/ backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near prisitne - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Sharp-cornered,bright,clean,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and b/w facsimile newspaper reports/cuttings illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xiipp-2-317pp [paginated] includes author's note,Pts 1-3,sources and acknowledgements,select biblio,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication,content list/table,b/w map (New Jersey and Coastline),4pp blanks to rear. As holiday makers thronged the palatial hotels and sandy beaches along the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1916,America was bursting with optimism and self-confidence.But a hitherto unimaginable series of events was about to shake that self-confidence to its core and create a national frenzy.A lone Great White Shark,driven inshore by freak climatic conditions,began to develop a taste for human flesh, attacking swimmers all along the popular coast between New York and Philadelphia - and even,incredibly,swimming eleven miles inland to devastate a farming community.When the horrifying truth could no longer be denied,an entire nation mobilized its collective energy to hunt down the monster,and a mythic enemy was permanently lodged in our nightmares.The tragedy introduced the 20thC to the terror of sharks and seemed to mark the end of an innocent age when ships were unsinkable and a shark,so experts believed,hadn't the jaw strength to hurt a man.They remain the most devastating series of shark attacks in history,anywhere in the world - the model for Peter Benchley's classic,bestseller 'Jaws'.
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Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times and a National Magazine Award finalist, Michael Capuzzo has been a feature writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Miami Herald . His stories have also appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Life , and Reader's Digest . He lives with his wife and two children in rural New Jersey.

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Title
CLOSE TO SHORE.
Author
CAPUZZO, MICHAEL:
Illustrator
illus with b/w facsimile newspaper cuttings.
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
NFINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0747274673
ISBN 13
9780747274674
Publisher
LONDON.HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING 2001.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
2001
Keywords
q52.GENERAL.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0747274673.Shark attacks_New Jersey_history.White shark_New Jersey_1916.Bull Shark Attacks_freshwater_inland.Jaws_Peter Benchley.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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