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Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & the Sea
In this riveting true adventure tale and informative guide to the sea, master storyteller Peter Benchley drew on more than four decades of diving experience to bring us face-to-face with the array of sharks and other marine animals he and his family encountered, almost always on purpose—but sometimes by accident.
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
April 10th 2007
by Yearling
(first published 2005)
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Shark Life True Stories About Sharks and the Sea by Peter Benchley
Non fiction
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This book is written by a kind of famous person. This is the author of the book jaws. He also wrote like 10 other famous books about the ocean. This book tries to reverse the feelings of the people that were thought when he came out with the movie jaws. He states many stories about him swimming with sharks. He states in this book that he swam with sharks and has only been attacked by a shark once. He also said many...more
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This book is written by a kind of famous person. This is the author of the book jaws. He also wrote like 10 other famous books about the ocean. This book tries to reverse the feelings of the people that were thought when he came out with the movie jaws. He states many stories about him swimming with sharks. He states in this book that he swam with sharks and has only been attacked by a shark once. He also said many...more
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Shark Life is all about...sharks!!!(non-fiction) Written by my personal hero, Peter Benchley. This book has information about sharks ranging from 10 most deadliest to shark attack stories. Shark Life also spends time explaining how you can lessen your risk of getting attacked by sharks. An interesting fact that it states is that the biggest fish/shark eats one of the smallest..plankton! Which I personally believe everyone is relieved by, especially considering many lucky divers get to ri...more
Shark Life is all about...sharks!!!(non-fiction) Written by my personal hero, Peter Benchley. This book has information about sharks ranging from 10 most deadliest to shark attack stories. Shark Life also spends time explaining how you can lessen your risk of getting attacked by sharks. An interesting fact that it states is that the biggest fish/shark eats one of the smallest..plankton! Which I personally believe everyone is relieved by, especially considering many lucky divers get to ri...more
Shark Life is intended for young adult readers but I would recommend it for anyone looking for a quick captivating introduction to sharks. Written by Peter Benchley, the bestselling author of JAWS, Benchley shares his 40 years of diving experience with readers alternating between facts and remarkable first hand encounters with a variety of sharks. It is well written and as with all good writing has some unexpected surprises thrown in for good measure.
Benchley is an enchanting writer and knows h...more
Benchley is an enchanting writer and knows h...more
Dec 04, 2012
Jelani Hughes
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The book I read is called shark life by Peter Benchly, who is also the protagonist fo teh book. The book starts out in the middle of the ocean with Peter in a cage and sharks attacking him. Then the story goes back to before he was asked to do that job. The protagonist main problem in the story is trying to survive from being in the ocean and finishing his movie.When he's out in the middle of the ocean and he thinks his movie that he is starring and producing in "Jaws". After a couple of hours P...more
Shark Life
Nonfiction
Pg. 207
Shark life is a book about sharks and Peter Benchleys experiances with the preditores of the sea. In this he explains that though all sharks my look scary and evil the only sharks that you should really fear are the tiger, bull and great white sharks. He also tells some great stories about this adventures like when a great white took his shake cage down to the bottom of the whater they where in and got the hard metal wire out of his teeth all whial he was in the cage a...more
Nonfiction
Pg. 207
Shark life is a book about sharks and Peter Benchleys experiances with the preditores of the sea. In this he explains that though all sharks my look scary and evil the only sharks that you should really fear are the tiger, bull and great white sharks. He also tells some great stories about this adventures like when a great white took his shake cage down to the bottom of the whater they where in and got the hard metal wire out of his teeth all whial he was in the cage a...more
I really enjoyed this book, which I picked up off the shelf at the beach house I stayed at. It seemed morbidly appropriate for beachside reading. The stories are fascinating. The topic, of course, is irresistible: who isn't curiously awed by ocean life?
Benchley has made a career underwater--both as a writer and a diver. He swims all over the world with all kinds of marine life (intentionally and otherwise) and various shark species--sometimes swarms of them. These are the true-life experiences h...more
Benchley has made a career underwater--both as a writer and a diver. He swims all over the world with all kinds of marine life (intentionally and otherwise) and various shark species--sometimes swarms of them. These are the true-life experiences h...more
I bought this book in a little book store in Avalon. My expectations weren't exactly very high, for this was before I began to like Benchley's other works. However, I was pleasantly surprised by it. Benchley writes in such a descriptive and even suspenseful manor, I found myself deeply fascinated. The book contains various exploits of Mr. Benchley's travels. If you are interested in marine life, this book is something that you should read. The book's stories include hunting for colossal squid, s...more
I chose Shark Life because I am very fascinated with sharks and other under sea creatures. The book Shark Life is basically what you would think its a book about how Shark Life's work and with Peter Benchley being a witness to make different sharks I found this amazing to read. My favorite quote is when Peter said " I was alone, kneeling at the bottom, stunned and breathless." He said this quote when he fell of his boat and was with a great white face to face and I t had an impact on me because...more
"Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & the Sea" contains a plethora of happy and informative stories about Peter Benchley and his encounters with various sea creatures. The book also presents sharks as neither the kindly king of the oceans nor the misanthrope of marine life, but rather as a group of elasmobranchii who view the world much differently than land-based mammals.
When I first started reading this book, I only knew Peter Benchley as the man who wrote "Jaws". By the end of the book...more
When I first started reading this book, I only knew Peter Benchley as the man who wrote "Jaws". By the end of the book...more
Shark Life! Wow! You won't believe that the same author of the Thriller Jaws wrote this eye opening book about his love for the ocean and its inhabitants. In the motion picture sharks are given a bad name but here Peter Benchley writes from a different perspective that celebrates sharks and other creatures. Shark Life is filled with amazing true stories that you would never imagine could happen in a person’s life. Although the book is above a fourth grade reading level, I feel that the stores ca...more
In this heart-beating, frightening, and fascinating compilation of true shark stories, we as the readers are able to hear all about different varieties of Shark's in their own habitats. What I think is amazing about Peter Benchley's book is that it explains who is considered the prey and the predator. Just by reading this book and the stories, we can get up close to nature, by just imagining and picture what it was like in that particular moment. This book really caught my attention since it was...more
I think Shark Life is a wonderful book. I think this because it has a great storyline for all of its short stories. It also has so many facts. One cool fact I learned is a longimanus shark has a fin span of almost 15 feet in its adult life! The author Peter Benchley has been attacked by sharks numerous times. He is also the author of JAWS. JAWS.
I totally loved LOVED this book!!!!! All of his stories were great and I loved hearing how the book Jaws came about.
Funny how things happen. He leads one very awesome life and I really enjoyed reading about it.
I totally suggest any one who loves the sea and all the amazing creatures in it, read this book! It wont disappoint I promise!!
Funny how things happen. He leads one very awesome life and I really enjoyed reading about it.
I totally suggest any one who loves the sea and all the amazing creatures in it, read this book! It wont disappoint I promise!!
LOVED IT! It was very interesting and very educational. It is a non-fiction, but flows like a novel. It's a quick read and gives you all sorts of interesting infromation, like how to read the ocean and why you shouldn't be scared of sharks. Only suggestion, don't read it at night before going to bed!
As a very water oriented family that feels they could recount many underwater thrilling experiences, Peter Benchley continues to surprise us in what are sometimes funny and sometimes harrowing personal encounters under the water. I've given this book as a gift many times!
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This book it so cool. I went to the library and saw it and picked it up. I thought it was going to be a stupid information book. But it has taught me a lot. And the book has made me want to rewatch Jaws.
Boys in your class love to read about sharks, that is almost universally true. Help students get excited about non-fiction by having a variety of books that they're interested in that they can read.
I love anything that deals with sharks. I suppose it comes from my growing up in Florida during the Jaws years. lol. This is a good book, for anyone that loves the life of animals.
i found out alot by reading this clever book. if you ever need to know any fact on sharks, this is the book to pick. i say two thumbs up to Peter Benchley.
Love it um can anyone help me find where it talks about that shark that they found but didn't understand why it had so many bodies in it?
weirdly enough i really liked it it tells all about the under water wourld and the other point of view!
It was good for a nonfiction, but most non-fictions ( in my opinion ) are kinda boring.
It was almost a informational book but it was so good if you like Peter Benchley
3.5 stars. I rounded it to 4. This was an interesting and informative read.
best non-fiction I've ever read! this guy rocks!
Love Peter Benchley. One of the greats.
Quarter: 3
Genre: Informational
Genre: Informational
same book as Shark Trouble, different name. Weird and stupid.
THE KOOLEST BOOK EVA!
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Peter Bradford Benchley was an American author best known for writing the novel Jaws and co-writing the screenplay for its highly successful film adaptation. The success of the book led to many publishers commissioning books about mutant rats, rabid dogs and the like threatening communities. The subsequent film directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written by Benchley is generally acknowledged as th...more
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