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<p class="null1">A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators-and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them</p> <p>Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count; even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco.</p> <p>In a matter of months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island-dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 135-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsession-a
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- Author
- Casey, Susan, 1962-
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Co, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780805075816
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Adventure, Travel
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (4,156 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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