Capuzzo, Mike.

Close to shore : the terrifying shark attacks of 1916 / Michael Capuzzo. - 1st trade paperback ed. - New York : Broadway Books, 2002, c2001. - xvi, 317 p. : map ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-317).

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.

ISBN: 9780767904148 0767904141 9781439531198

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Shark attacks.
Shark attacks--History.--New Jersey

Dewey Class. No.: 597.3/1566