The panic-filled summer of 1916, when multiple deadly Shark Attacks shocked the nation, is chronicled in this gripping addition to the New York Times Best-Selling What Was? series.
In this illustrated book, which features 16 pages of black-and-white photographs, readers will learn about the likely culprit (or culprits) in the attacks--the great white Shark and the bull shark--and how the bloody summer of 1916 would change how people viewed sharks forever..
Scientists claimed a Shark could not be responsible, but more deadly Attacks soon followed along the Jersey Shore and up the freshwater Matawan Creek, setting off a nationwide panic that led the White House to declare a War on Sharks.
On July 1, 1916, witnesses watched in horror as twenty-eight-year-old Charles Vansant was attacked and killed by a Shark in shallow water off Beach Haven, New Jersey--the first recorded Shark attack in American history.
The panic-filled summer of 1916, when multiple deadly Shark Attacks shocked the nation, is chronicled in this gripping addition to the New York Times Best-Selling What Was? series
