Shark Trouble (Abridged)

Drawing on more than three decades of experience writing about sharks and other marine animals, the bestselling author of*Jaws*combines high adventure with practical information in*a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea.

“Shark attacks on human beings generate a tremendous amount of media coverage,” Benchley writes, “partly because they occur so rarely, but mostly, I think, because people are, and always have been, simultaneou...