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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
by Casey, Susan
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0805080112
- ISBN 13
- 9780805080117
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Owl Books, 2006. Trade paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count; even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of 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-dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 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 instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years. The Devil's Teeth is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010025959
- Title
- The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
- Author
- Casey, Susan
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0805080112
- ISBN 13
- 9780805080117
- Publisher
- Owl Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 5x0x8
- X weight
- 4 oz
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...