The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsess- hardcover, Susan Casey, 9780805075816

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Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Artist
Casey, Susan
ISBN
9780805075816
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
080507581X
ISBN-13
9780805075816
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038845753

Product Key Features

Book Title
Devil's Teeth : a True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Fish, Special Interest / Adventure, Personal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Revised
Genre
Nature, Travel, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Susan Casey
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-060782
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"I read Susan Casey's book in a feeding frenzy, satisfying my curiosity while fueling my fascination with sharks. A thoroughly researched and well-written piece of literature that raises hairs as well as tickling funny bones, THE DEVIL'S TEETH artfully reveals what lurks in the shadows of the mysterious great white and the people obsessed with them. The true triumph of the book, though, is in Casey's transcendence of mere journalism-she's clearly embraced by the world of which she writes." -Linda Greenlaw, Author of THE HUNGRY OCEAN and ALL FISHERMEN ARE LIARS   "A marvelous book-part adventure, part meditation, part natural history -- that takes the reader on a wild ride into a strange and seductive world. Casey is the perfect diving companion; her account of life among San Francisco's shark population is engaging, smart, and irresistible." -Susan Orlean, author of My Kind of Place and The Orchid Thief "In delivering us to the Farallon Islands, and then into the souls of the magnificent Great White Sharks that populate its waters, Susan Casey has really delivered us into the DNA of our own beings. The Devil's Teeth is more than a shark story; it is an account of our instincts, our appetites, even our futures, all beautifully told by a writer compelled to know."-Robert Kurson, author of Shadow Divers "'There's another world, and it's in this one,'" declares Susan Casey, reveling in the surreality of her days and nights spent among the world's coolest, cold-eyed customers, great white sharks. Who knew these beasts lived so close to San Francisco, within the pizza delivery zone of that fair city? Casey is a poet, a bare-knuckled spirit, unabashed and funny, and hers is an entrancing ride to a beautiful, forbidding place, a new world, close by. Hang on." -Doug Stanton, author of In Harm's Way "Susan Casey could write about guppies, and I'd want to read her book. I devoured this book like a shark." -Mary Roach, author of Stiff, "I read Susan Casey's book in a feeding frenzy, satisfying my curiosity while fueling my fascination with sharks. A thoroughly researched and well-written piece of literature that raises hairs as well as tickling funny bones, THE DEVIL'S TEETH artfully reveals what lurks in the shadows of the mysterious great white and the people obsessed with them. The true triumph of the book, though, is in Casey's transcendence of mere journalism-she's clearly embraced by the world of which she writes." -Linda Greenlaw, Author of THE HUNGRY OCEAN and ALL FISHERMEN ARE LIARS "A marvelous book-part adventure, part meditation, part natural history -- that takes the reader on a wild ride into a strange and seductive world. Casey is the perfect diving companion; her account of life among San Francisco's shark population is engaging, smart, and irresistible." -Susan Orlean, author of My Kind of Place and The Orchid Thief "In delivering us to the Farallon Islands, and then into the souls of the magnificent Great White Sharks that populate its waters, Susan Casey has really delivered us into the DNA of our own beings. The Devil's Teeth is more than a shark story; it is an account of our instincts, our appetites, even our futures, all beautifully told by a writer compelled to know."-Robert Kurson, author of Shadow Divers "'There's another world, and it's in this one,'" declares Susan Casey, reveling in the surreality of her days and nights spent among the world's coolest, cold-eyed customers, great white sharks. Who knew these beasts lived so close to San Francisco, within the pizza delivery zone of that fair city? Casey is a poet, a bare-knuckled spirit, unabashed and funny, and hers is an entrancing ride to a beautiful, forbidding place, a new world, close by. Hang on." -Doug Stanton, author of In Harm's Way "Susan Casey could write about guppies, and I'd want to read her book. I devoured this book like a shark." -Mary Roach, author of Stiff
Dewey Decimal
597.3/3/09794
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators-and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them 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., A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators-and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them.
LC Classification Number
QL638.95.L3C37 2005

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