Shark Trouble

by Peter Benchley

Book Overview

Master storyteller Peter Benchley combines high adventure with practical information in Shark Trouble, a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375508244
• ISBN13: 9780375508240
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful informative reading

This book is fantastic, Mr Benchley cleared the shark as a terrible man eating machine, and instead showed us the magnificent creature that this fish really is.

SHARKS!!!

this book is very good. it gives the reader an up close look at sharks. it is very interesting and warns us on the danger of swimming in the ocean. i have read this book twice and still find it a very good and easy read! if you loved jaws then you will love this book. great book with lots of facts.

A Surprising Delight

I really enjoyed this audio book. In it, Peter Benchely recounts his adventures in the seas interspersed with factual information on sharks and other sea creatures. Benchely, unlike some authors, reads his work with enthusiasm and skill, making it engaging from beginning to end. I came away with a much deeper respect for the sea and the creatures in it and a renewed sense of the importance of understanding the interconnectedness of all things. Besides the environmental importance of the book, it is full of fun and funny and even scary adventure stories. I highly recommend it.

A MUST READ for all who swim in the ocean

I highly recommend this book for anyone who swims in the ocean, parents of children who will swim in the ocean (even for those who simply wade in) and for anyone who has trouble re-entering the ocean after reading and/or watching "JAWS."Peter Benchley takes an almost apologetic tone in the first part (of three parts) of the book to first the general public and second to ocean and marine life scientists for writing a book (JAWS, 1974), that turned into a movie, that scared so many reader's/viewer's pants off to go into any body of water other than the family pool or bathtub. He also tells the very interesting story of how he came to write "JAWS".Peter Benchley masterfully weaves his and family's many awe-inspiring as well as heart-pounding, real-life adventures in bodies of water all over the world (as well as the adventure of others) with lots of "how-to" and "you-can-use" information about the ocean, from her shores to her depths and all the life inbetween.His point? Know and respect the ocean and life within, and she'll welcome you in; ignore her (warning) signs and she'll bite you (sometimes literally).

Super book!

Highly recommended for the armchair adventurer: entertaining, engrossing, informative, well written. Peter Benchley describes some of his personal shark-adventures with intelligence, modesty and wit. Interwoven with the extraordinary episodes he describes are both general ecological observations and specific, practical advice for seashore swimmers.