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AuthorCasey, Susan, 1962-TitleThe devil’s teeth : a true story of obsession and survival among America’s great white sharks / Susan Casey.Edition1st ed.
PublishedNew York : H. Holt, 2005.FormatBook
Biography, Autobiography
Description291 p., [16] p. plates : col. ill., map ; 25 cm.

LinkContributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0618/2004060782-b.html
NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-288).
AbstractJournalist 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.
ISBN080507581XPer.Sub.Casey, Susan, 1962-
SubjectWhite shark -- California -- Farallon Islands -- Anecdotes.

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