Great White Shark

From Library Journal
The great white shark swam the deep for millions of years in relative obscurity until the 1975 film Jaws put it at the forefront of everyone's nightmares. Since that time much has been written about the fish, most of which concentrated on its appetite for people. Though it does occasionaly dine on swimmers, the shark has more of a bad rap than it deserves. Building on the material capsulized in Ellis's Book of Sharks ( LJ 1/15/77), the authors give the white shark soup-to-nuts coverage, discussing its unique biology (it's warm blooded), size, distribution, and evolution. They also describe the sport of shark fishing and the efforts, in these conservation conscious times, toward saving the white from threats of extinction. Handsomely illustrated with Ellis's paintings and many simply awesome photographs (happily none of half-eaten attack victims), the text has enough scientific fact for armchair icthyologists but not enough to confuse the casual reader. An excellent portrait of one of the most impressive and maligned creatures, this has a place in all public libraries.- Michael Rogers, "Library Journal"Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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