The devil's teeth :
by Casey, Susan, frey50
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : H. Holt, (New York :) , 2005 Physical details: 291 p. : col. ill., map ; 25 cm. ISBN:080507581X; 9780805075816.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Journalist 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.