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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Edition: 1 ED
Publisher: Broadway Books
ISBN: 0767904133
Release Date: Jan 5, 2001
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 4 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
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 shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.
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During the summer before the United States entered World War I, when ocean swimming was just becoming popular and luxurious Jersey Shore resorts were thriving as a chic playland for an opulent yet still innocent era's new leisure class, Americans were abruptly introduced to the terror of sharks. In July 1916 a lone great white was pulled from the deep ocean by a current of the Gulf Stream and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the towns of Beach Haven and Spring Lake -- and, incredibly, a farming community eleven miles from the sea -- the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage: the first shark attacks on swimmers in U.S. history. For Americans celebrating an astoundingly prosperous epoch much like our own, fueled by the wizardry of revolutionary inventions, the arrival of this violent predator symbolized the limits of mankind's power over nature.
Interweaving a vivid portrait of the era and meticulously drawn characters with chilling accounts of the shark's five attacks and the frenzied hunt that ensued, Michael Capuzzo has created a nonfiction historical thriller with the texture of Ragtime and the tension of Jaws. From the unnerving inevitability of the first attack on the esteemed son of a prosperous Philadelphia physician to the spine-tingling moment when a farm boy swimming in Matawan Creek feels the sandpaper-like skin of the passing shark, Close to Shore is an undeniably gripping saga. Heightening the drama are stories of the resulting panic in the citizenry, press, and politicians, and of colorful personalities such as Hermann Oelrichs, a flamboyant millionaire who made a bet that a shark was no match for a man (and set out to prove it); Museum of Natural History ichthyologist John Treadwell Nichols, faced with the challenge of stopping a mythic sea creature about which little was known; and, most memorable, the rogue great white itself, moving through a world that couldn't conceive of either its destructive power or its moral right to destroy.
Masterfully written and suffused with fascinating period detail and insights into the science and behavior of sharks, Close to Shore recounts a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history with startling immediacy.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 4 Average Rating:
an amazing true life account
-- A reviewer, a avid fisherman, August 5, 2002
Also Recommended: The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told-by Lamar Underwood, The Old Man and the Sea-by Earnest Hemingway
Jaws anyone?
-- Alex, a swiss reader, November 28, 2001
Also Recommended: Twelve days of Terror
Wonderful, Entertaining, Educational
-- B. Buttner, a lover of good books, August 27, 2001
Gripping
-- Jackie Patt, a Michael Capuzzo fan, January 11, 2002
| |  | | | | Author's Note | XI | | Map of New Jersey And Coastline | XIII | | The Last Man In The Water | 1 | | Part 1 | An Erratic Era | 5 | | Part 2 | A Reign of Terror | 105 | | Part 3 | To Destroy No More | 199 | | Sources And Acknowledgments | 299 | | Selected Bibliography | 309 |
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