What Were the Shark Attacks of 1916?
Author: HQ, Who
ISBN: 9780593521588
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 07 May 2024
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;The gripping true story of the panic-filled summer that changed how people view sharks foreverP#8212;part of the Plt;iPgt;New York Times Plt;/iPgt;bestselling What Was? series, featuring 16 pages of photos.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;The panic-filled summer of 1916, when multiple deadly shark attacks shocked the nation, is chronicled in this gripping addition to the Plt;iPgt;New York Times Plt;/iPgt;Best-Selling What Was? series.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;On July 1, 1916, witnesses watched in horror as twenty-eight-year-old Charles Vansant was attacked and killed by a shark in shallow water off Beach Haven, New JerseyP#8212;the first recorded shark attack in American history. Scientists claimed a shark could not be responsible, but more deadly attacks soon followed along the Jersey Shore and up the freshwater Matawan Creek, setting off a nationwide panic that led the White House to declare a P#8220;War on Sharks.P#8221; In this illustrated book, which features 16 pages of black-and-white photographs, readers will learn about the likely culprit (or culprits) in the attacksP#8212;the great white shark and the bull sharkP#8212;and how the bloody summer of 1916 would change how people viewed sharks forever.
ISBN: 9780593521588
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 07 May 2024
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;The gripping true story of the panic-filled summer that changed how people view sharks foreverP#8212;part of the Plt;iPgt;New York Times Plt;/iPgt;bestselling What Was? series, featuring 16 pages of photos.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;The panic-filled summer of 1916, when multiple deadly shark attacks shocked the nation, is chronicled in this gripping addition to the Plt;iPgt;New York Times Plt;/iPgt;Best-Selling What Was? series.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;On July 1, 1916, witnesses watched in horror as twenty-eight-year-old Charles Vansant was attacked and killed by a shark in shallow water off Beach Haven, New JerseyP#8212;the first recorded shark attack in American history. Scientists claimed a shark could not be responsible, but more deadly attacks soon followed along the Jersey Shore and up the freshwater Matawan Creek, setting off a nationwide panic that led the White House to declare a P#8220;War on Sharks.P#8221; In this illustrated book, which features 16 pages of black-and-white photographs, readers will learn about the likely culprit (or culprits) in the attacksP#8212;the great white shark and the bull sharkP#8212;and how the bloody summer of 1916 would change how people viewed sharks forever.
