Greg Skomal Chasing Shadows recensie, review en informatie boek over de witte haai. Op 2 juli 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij William Morrow & Company, Chasing Shadows, Unraveling the Mysteries of the Great White Shark. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteurs en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondiogd.
Greg Skomal Chasing Shadows recensie en review
- “Fans of Jaws and Shark Week will love this book, but it’s also a compelling read for anyone interested in oceans, wildlife, conservation, or scientific adventures. An excellent title for readers who’ve ever been at the ocean’s edge and wondered what was out there.” (Library Journal)
- “At last: the story of tracking the ocean’s most charismatic and controversial predator, compellingly told by the man who has learned more about the Atlantic great white shark than any other person alive. You must not miss this fantastic book! I could not put it down.” (Sy Montgomery)
Chasing Shadows
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Great White Shark
- Auteurs: Greg Skomal, Ret Talbot (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: dierenboek, natuurboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: William Morrow & Company
- Verschijnt: 2 juli 2024
- Omvang: 368 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: $18.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek over de witte haai
With its quaint villages, local restaurants serving up lobster rolls, and miles and miles of warm, sandy beaches, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is famous for being America’s carefree seaside getaway. But in August 2012, the first confirmed white shark attack in almost eighty years occurred in the region. As shark sightings quickly began to increase on Cape Cod and elsewhere, and large beachside billboards warning about the growing shark population became a common sight, a boogie boarder died after being attacked by a great white shark in Cape Cod’s shallow waters.
What had changed to cause news of human-shark interactions to go from being a rarity to being the new normal? As some citizens called for shark culls, nets, drone surveillance, and other extreme solutions, interactions between local residents and scientists, politicians, and those responsible for public safety became tense and frantic.
Dr. Greg Skomal, a shark biologist whose lifelong passion has been to gain a more refined understanding of great white sharks, was at the center of it all. This is the story of the great white shark’s return to the eastern seaboard, told through the life of the scientist who found himself in the oftentimes thankless position of having to balance conservation efforts and the drive to do important science with panic and fear in the court of public opinion. Greg has spent decades on a quest to tag, track, and demystify this animal, using every high- and low-tech method at his disposal, including those he invented, and he frequently comes face-to-face with these shadows of the deep. He leaves no stone unturned in his pursuit of the secrets behind the largely unknown lives of these charismatic creatures and in his duty to solve the intricate puzzle of how humans can coexist alongside them.
Chasing Shadows is a too-rare conservation success story about restoring an apex predator to an ecosystem that provides a profound, new understanding of a beast so notoriously fierce that it’s nearly impossible to imagine how vulnerable it truly is.
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