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He also added true stories about his encounters with sharks. 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. Benchley, best known for his novel jaws and the movies which erupted from it, here draws on over four decades of diving experience to explore sharks and. The books are available at new titles appear on a regular basis. This article, which appeared in the august 1965 edition of readers digest, is a firsthand account of a fisherman that was attacked by a shark and lived to tell his story. It gives information about sharks and with more information sharks seem less. Jan 01, 2002 this is the case with shark life, an informative book filled with personal anecdotes of benchleys own encounters with sharks and other sea creatures. In direct and accessible prose, peter benchley sets the record straight about the many types of sharks including the ones that pose a genuine threat to us, the behavior of sharks and other sea creatures we fear, the odds against an attack, and how to improve them. Scientists think that sharks lived 200 million years before the dinosaurs. I have been steadily growing sections of my classroom library, and while i have.
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True stories about sharks and the sea by the author of jaws unabridged by benchley, peter, benchley, peter isbn. 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. In direct and accessible prose, peter benchley sets the record straight about the many types of sharks including the ones that pose a genuine threat to us, the behavior of sharks and other sea creatures we fear, the odds against an attack, and. Shark life ebook by peter benchley 9780307545749 rakuten kobo. In this riveting true adventure tale and informative guide to the sea. In this riveting true adventure and informative guide to the sea, master storyteller peter benchley draws on more than four decades of diving experience to, isbn 9780440419549 buy the shark. Peter benchley describes different types of sharks, including those that pose a threat to humans, their behavior and how to avoid attack. In this riveting true adventure and informative guide to the sea, master storyteller peter benchley draws on more than four decades of diving experience to bring us face to face with the array of sharks and other marine animals he and his family have encountered, almost always on purposebut sometimes by accident. True stories about sharks and the sea with karen wojtyla 2005 film.