Showing Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo
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Close to Shore Pulitzer Prize nominee Capuzzo brilliantly recreates the summer of 1916, when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history. Full description
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