Close to Shore

  • Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
    By Michael Capuzzo

    Then, on February 4, 1922, Milton Coughlan, a surfman, was “cracking a few waves” on Coogee Beach when a large shark “struck with such terrific force that he was lifted from the water,” whereupon a crowd watched a large pair of jaws ...

  • Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
    By Michael Capuzzo

    Describes how, in the summer of 1916, a lone great white shark headed for the New Jersey shoreline and a farming community eleven miles inland, attacking five people and igniting the most extensive shark hunt in history.

  • Close to Shore
    By Mike Capuzzo, Michael Capuzzo

    Combining biology, history and adventure, this is the first book on the events that pitted 20th-century technology against an ancient, mythic enemy and became the model for Peter Benchley's Jaws.

  • Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence
    By Mike Capuzzo

    Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey...

  • Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
    By Mike Capuzzo

    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.

  • Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence
    By Mike Capuzzo, Michael Capuzzo

    Describes how, in the summer of 1916, a lone great white shark headed for the New Jersey shoreline and a farming community eleven miles inland, attacking five people and igniting the most extensive shark hunt in history.

  • Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
    By Michael Capuzzo

    A nonfiction historical thriller about the summer of 1916 describes how a lone great white shark left its usual deep ocean habitat and headed for the New Jersey shoreline and a farming community eleven miles inland, attacking five people ...