Great Shark Writings

by Taylor, Valerie; Taylor, Ron; Goadby, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781585670567
• ISBN10: 1585670561
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

With Peter Goadby,The classic collection of shark writings, both,fiction and non-fiction - with selections from,Peter Matthiessen, Arthur C Clarke, and Ernest,Hemingway. This is the first volume ever to,present a large selection of the literature,and lore surrounding these awesome creatures of,the sea, and includes the most famous shark,encounters of all time, as well as the amazing,discoveries of such famous scientists as William,Beebe and Eugene Clark, shark legends of Polynesia,and India and stories from the sets of films Jaws

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
I. STARS OF THE SILVER SCREEN
From Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark	3	(7)
Peter Matthiessen
The Filming of Blue Water, White Death	10	(9)
Valerie Taylor
From Jaws	19	(10)
Peter Benchley
The Filming for Jaws	29	(12)
Valerie Taylor
II. ADVENTURE
From Sharks Are Caught at Night	41	(4)
Francois Poli
The Great White Shark Expedition	45	(5)
Valerie Taylor
From Shark: Unpredictable Killer of the Sea	50	(7)
Thomas Helm
From Heaven Has Claws	57	(6)
Adrian Conan Doyle
III. SHARK BEHAVIOR
From Sharks, Sea and Land	63	(6)
``Sinbad''
From Lord of the Sharks	69	(6)
Franco Prosperi
The Vanishing Gray Nurse	75	(6)
Valerie Taylor
From The Arcturus Adventure	81	(6)
William Beebe
From Sharks and Other Ancestors	87	(8)
Wade Doak
Great White Death	95	(14)
Valerie Taylor
IV. SCIENTIFIC
``Sharks That Ring Bells''	109	(18)
Eugenie Clark
V. DIVERS AND SHARKS
From The Coast of Coral	127	(6)
Arthur C. Clarke
From Men Beneath the Sea: Conquest of the Underwater World	133	(16)
Hans Hass
VI. SEA GIANTS
From Kon-Tiki	149	(4)
Thor Heyerdahl
Riding a Shark	153	(5)
Valerie Taylor
From Creatures of the Sea	158	(4)
William B. Gray
Jonah and the Whale	162	(3)
From Shark-O	165	(8)
P. Fitzgerald Connor
VII. CATCHING SHARKS
From Fangs of the Sea	173	(12)
Norman Caldwell
Norman Ellison
From Fishing in Many Waters	185	(7)
James Hornell
From Shark! Shark! The Thirty-Year Odyssey of a Pioneer Shark Hunter	192	(5)
William E. Young
From Battles with Giant Fish	197	(5)
F. A. Mitchell-Hedges
From A Pattern of Islands	202	(8)
Arthur Grimble
From Saltwater Angling in South Africa	210	(9)
Romer Robinson
J. S. Dunn
VIII. GAME FISHING FOR SHARKS
Mako, Blue Dynamite	219	(8)
Peter Goadby
From An American Angler in Australia	227	(10)
Zane Grey
IX. SHARKS THAT ATTACK
From Sharks and Shipwrecks	237	(6)
Hugh Edwards
From Shark Attack	243	(9)
H. David Baldridge
``Feeding Habits of Large Sharks'' by Stewart Springer	252	(9)
Perry W. Gilbert
``Anti-Shark Measures'' by Stewart Springer and Perry W. Gilbert	261	(8)
Perry W. Gilbert
From About Sharks and Shark Attacks	269	(5)
David H. Davies
From Shark Attack	274	(7)
Victor M. Coppleson
From Sharks and Rays of Australian Seas	281	(5)
David Stead
From the Shark Arm Case	286	(11)
Vince Kelly
X. FICTION
From Tiger Shark	297	(6)
Hugh Edwards
From Big Game at Sea	303	(6)
Charles F. Holder
From Ti-Coyo and His Shark	309	(4)
Clement Richer
The Old Man and the Sea	313
Ernest Hemingway