About this title: When a shark began prowling the New Jersey coastline in the summer of 1916, the summer before United States entered World War I, those summering there in the idyllic hideaway of the nation's elite had cause for alarm. This study draws a portrait of this early assault on the Gilded Age--when a seemingly invulnerable leisure class saw early signs of ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780767904148ISBN:0767904141
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780767904148ISBN:0767904141
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780375822315ISBN:0375822313
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780375822315ISBN:0375822313
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375822315ISBN:0375822313
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780767904148ISBN:0767904141
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780767904148ISBN:0767904141
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"In 1916, shark attacks in the north Atlantic were unheard of. So when a juvenile great white shark started to attack people off the coast of New Jersey in July, scientists didn't believe it was a shark at all. Even after it was captured and the contents of its stomach were shown to contain human bones. the experts said it must have scavanged them. Of course, now we now better.
This book tells the story of those times and the people who were affected. It takes a long time before we get to the first attack - almost a third of the book. The author does a good job of getting into the heads of the people who were attacked and their families. He doesn't really say anything about them after the attack, so I was left with a feeling that the story was only partially told.
"One of my most favorite books. If you have ever spent time at the Jersey shore you should read this book. I actually read this book on the beach in Brigantine, NJ. I couldn't stop raising my eyes to look out at the water, spying for sharks!
What's best about this compelling book? It's true.
The author's attention to details in his writing is quite exceptional. Very well done."
"It's interesting to read about events in the first 20 years of the 20th century. It was truly a different world and the ydid things differently then.
It was the time when the ocean was really first being used for recreational swimming and therefore bringing people into contact with sharks for the first time in mass numbers. Sharks were very poorly understood at the time and so there was great uncertainty as to what was attacking people off the coat of NY in 1916.
Intriguing story. There is naturally supposition as to where the shark went etc as well as what the victime felt, but this is acknowledged and is well done in the narrative.
There are many parallels with Jaws - Benchly apparently based his ficticious shark on this case and the movie is similarly faithful to this original, true story.
Undeniably entertaining and whilst not necessarily historically detailed, gives a clear account of the times."
"having grown up captivated by tales of the infamous jersey shore shark attacks, i'd been looking forward to reading this book for some time. close to shore recounts the two weeks in july of 1916 when five swimmers off the new jersey coast were viciously attacked. it is believed to have been the result of a single great white shark (though some maintain it may have been a bull shark). of the five attacked, four died from their injuries. two of the deaths came of an attack and failed rescue that actually took place in a creek some 15 miles from the ocean. these 1916 attacks became the basis for jaws, the most popular shark film of all time (based, of course, on peter benchley's novel).
michael capuzzo spends a great portion of the book recreating the milieu of 1916 new jersey. wealthy resorts along the jersey shore were increasing in popularity then, and quickly became a destination for opulent philadelphians, new yorkers, and other nearby residents. that summer was an uneasy one, as a polio epidemic raged and the united states was on the verge of entering world war i. very little was known about sharks at that time, yet it was widely held that sharks would never attack humans, let alone seek them out. the book features excerpts from newspaper articles printed during the "twelve days of terror," with countless reporters dazed by accounts of a "sea monster" or "sea-wolf" that was targeting humans. as evidence mounted, it became ever more clear that these attacks were, indeed, the work of a "rogue shark" or "man-eater." panic quickly engulfed the entire atlantic coast, bathers feared even stepping foot in the ocean, and some towns set up shark hunts replete with spears, shark hooks, rifles, shotguns, and dynamite."
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