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The Devil's Teeth

A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks

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The Devil's Teeth

Written by: Susan Casey
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
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Travel 30 miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and $6 cappuccinos. Venture 30 miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called the Farallones.

Journalist Susan Casey was in her living room when she first glimpsed this strange place and its resident sharks, their dark fins swirling around a tiny boat in a documentary. These great whites were the alphas among alphas, the narrator said, some of them topping 18 feet in length, and each fall they congregated here off the northern California coast. That so many of these magnificent and elusive animals lived in the 415 area code, crisscrossing each other under the surface like jets stacked in a holding pattern, seemed stunningly improbable and irresistible. Casey knew she had to see them for herself.

Within a matter of months she was in a 17-foot Boston Whaler, being hoisted up a cliff to face onto the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island, part of the group known to 19th-century sailors as the "Devil's Teeth". There she joined the two biologists who study the sharks, bunking down in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 120-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Less than 48 hours later she had her first encounter with the famous, terrifying jaws and was instantly hooked. Curiosity yielded to obsession, and when the opportunity arose to return for a longer stay she jumped at it. But as Casey readied herself for shark season, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands.

The Devil's Teeth offers a rare glimpse into the lives of nature's most mysterious predators, and of those who follow them. Here is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.

©2005 Susan Casey (P)2005 Books on Tape, Inc.
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SO Interesting!

I've been pretty much (excuse the pun) 'hooked' on this audio book since I started. I love the storytelling. I am someone who watches every bad shark movie and any shark documentary I can get my hands on, so this book is giving me an excellent fix. There's actually quite a lot of action in this book and you really feel that sense of danger and awe throughout while listening. Topics such as the history of sharks in the aquarium industry as well as their population devastation because of shark finning were quite informative and organically weaved into the story, but that is a small part of this book so far. The author really has me back and forth on my compassion for these fish as there's some moments described where you can't help but feel like they are the mindless eating machines often depicted (the poor seals), but then you're brought back to the understanding of the sharks in their complexity and you can't help but respect these incredible creatures. The island where the story takes place is a perfectly foreboding setting and I find myself truly captivated by the author's experience throughout.

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