Put Some Meat in Your Shark Week

While the world is watching bogus documentaries with eternal commercial breaks on TV this week, may I suggest some factual material for your reading pleasure?




In Shark Attacks, I collaborated with National Geographic's team of scientists and editors to tell of sharks eating people--and vice versa. You'll read about these topics:






The Red Sea shark attacks of 2010.
A man swallowed whole by a great white.
The species most likely to remove your hands.
How humans inadvertently draw sharks to shore. 
How a shark attack turned one woman against soup.
How sharks support the huge human population of this planet.




. . . and lots more. 











And if you're still hungry after that, may I suggest The Book of Deadly Animals, available in paper or ebook form. Its shark chapter covers these topics:






The Jersey Shore attacks of 1916.
Motives for great white attacks, plus some of the most brutal cases.
Sharks in war, including the tragedy of the USS Indianapolis.
A record dive attended by oceanic whitetip sharks.
Jaws and our cultural reactions to sharks.




. . . and lots more. 

That's just the shark chapter, mind you; this book surveys the mightiest killers in the animal kingdom in text and photos. 











Illustration: Ugly Shark Week by Beckett Grice