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The Devil's Teeth

A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks

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 Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called the Farallones. Journalist Susan Casey was in her living room when she first glimpsed this strange place and its resident sharks, their dark fins swirling around a tiny boat in a documentary. These great whites were the alphas among alphas, the narrator said, some of them topping eighteen feet in length, and each fall they congregated here off the northern California coast. That so many of these magnificent and elusive animals lived in the 415 area code, crisscrossing each other under the surface like jets stacked in a holding pattern, seemed stunningly improbably–and irresistible.

Within a matter of months she was in a seventeen-foot Boston Whaler, being hoisted up a cliff face onto the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island–part of the group known to nineteenth-century sailors as the "Devil's Teeth." There she joined the two biologists who study the sharks, bunking down in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 120-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Less than forty-eight hours later she had her first encounter with the famous, terrifying jaws and was instantly hooked. The Devil's Teeth offers a rare glimpse into the lives of nature's most mysterious predators, and of those who follow them. Here is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.©2005 Susan Casey; (P)2005 Books on Tape, Inc. Adventure Travel Animals Biological Sciences Environment Outdoors & Nature Science
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my perception of these magnificent beast have truly changed and I would recommend this book to everyone rather you think shark are scary, cute, or boring.

amazing book

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Enjoyed this very much, Bought it for a car journey with my Daughter who is shark mad. A 6 hour journey flew by as we listened to this gripping account of The White sharks that visit the Farallon Island. This is more than just a book about White sharks but also fills in some interesting History of life and nature on these islands. Fully recommend this audio book.

Brilliant!

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Real story of natural history. And personal endurance of a lady in love with the whole Farallon Island experience. So jealous!

Great White Shark Story

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painful. dull as dishwater, monotone female narrator, written in the style of a 12 year old student describing their beach holiday for an assignment. perfect for insomniacs.

dreary & droll

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