Shark Trouble: True Stories About Sharks and the Sea

✍ Scribed by Benchley, Peter

• Book ID: 108501889
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781588362070

✦ Synopsis

Master storyteller Peter Benchley combines high adventure with practical information in Shark Trouble , a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea. The bestselling author of Jaws, The Deep , and other works draws on more than three decades of experience to share information about sharks and other marine animals.

"Shark attacks on human beings generate a tremendous amount of media coverage," Benchley writes, "partly because they occur so rarely, but mostly, I think, because people are, and always have been, simultaneously intrigued and terrified by sharks. Sharks come from a wing of the dark castle where our nightmares live--deep water beyond our sight and understanding--and so they stimulate our fears and fantasies and imaginations."

Benchley describes the many types of sharks (including the ones that pose a genuine threat to man), what is and isn't known about shark behavior, the odds against...