Shark!
Killer tales from the dangerous depths
Published on 1. December 2010
368 pages
978-1-74269-208-1 (ISBN)
Description
Personal accounts of encounters with sharks from shark hunters, divers, biologists, and everyday swimmers who meet up with sharks either deliberately or by accident Famous shark hunters and other adventurers speak for the first time about their dangerous encounters with these fearsome predators in this book chronicling shark attacks both on Australia's fatal shores and around the world. It records miraculous escapes as well--some so bizarre they defy belief, and some that display extraordinary courage in the face of extreme peril. The phenomenon of so-called "rogue" sharks that stalk and kill humans in numbers, in the same place, at the same time, is also investigated. With all viewpoints covered from shark hunters to conservationists, these gripping stories will both fascinate and frighten, taking the reader into the realm of creatures that have ruled the oceans with ruthless efficiency for more than 400 million years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
NSW
Australia
File size
14,40 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-74269-208-1 (9781742692081)
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12/2010
Allen & Unwin
€21.00
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Content
- Part Title
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1: THE HUNTERS AND THE HUNTED
- 1 Ben Cropp
- 2 Walter Starck
- 3 Bob and Dinah Halstead
- 4 Vic Hislop
- 5 Richard Fitzpatrick
- 6 Seaman Dan
- 7 Ron and Valerie Taylor
- 8 Fritz Herscheid
- PART 2: THE KILLERS
- 9 Number one: The great white shark
- 10 Number two: The tiger shark
- 11 Number three: The bull shark
- 12 And then there are these . . .
- PART 3: OUR FATAL SHORES
- 13 Queensland
- 14 New South Wales
- 15 South Australia
- 16 Western Australia
- 17 Victoria
- 18 Tasmania
- PART 4: THEY CHEATED DEATH
- 19 Summer of the shark
- 20 When courage prevails
- 21 With luck on their side
- PART 5: KILLING IN NUMBERS
- 22 Rogue sharks
- 23 Nine days of terror
- 24 New Jersey's fatal summer
- 25 Mass attacks-the rest of the world
- PART 6: STRANGE TALES OF MYSTERY AND EVOLUTION
- 26 The extraordinary arm-in-the-shark murder mystery
- 27 More tall but true shark tales
- 28 The biggest, the smallest, the weirdest
