True Story Book Club: The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey
The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan
Casey (320 pages)
Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, just twenty-seven
miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of months, Casey went to the Farallon Islands to join Scot Anderson and
Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building. Two
days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination
soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eight-week
stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished
every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years.