The devil's teeth
Subtitle: a true story of obsession and survival among America's great white sharks
By: Susan Casey.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt; Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: White shark -- California -- Farallon Islands -- Anecdotes.
Genres: Anecdotes.
Description: 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 joined two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a 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 hooked.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-288).