Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916

ISBN-10
0613627024
ISBN-13
9780613627023
Series
Close to Shore
Category
Shark attacks
Language
English
Published
2002
Author
Mike Capuzzo

Description

Combining rich historical detail and harrowing, pulse-pounding narative, the author re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore.

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