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Nicaragua's Atlantic coast is home to the most dangerous of fish: the bull shark, a lethal predator with a fearsome appetite, the only shark to penetrate inland. In Savage Shore, Edward Marriott braves Nicaragua's hurricane-torn wilderness of mangrove swamps and brackish lagoons, joining the last surviving shark fishermen - a fierce ethnic brew of black Caribs, Nicaraguan Indians, and the descendants of seventeenth-century English pirates - to sail wild seas in a dugout canoe and fish for shark with a hand line.
As Marriott charts the life of the bull shark, its migrations, its voracious feeding patterns, and the treasures it offers - oil for vitamins, hide for leather, and fins for soup - he also reveals lives spent in fear and awe in the shadow of a monster that can sniff fresh blood a mile away. Finally, he tells a tale of human greed: An elemental community, battered by civil war and natural disasters, is now degraded beyond repair to provide bounty for modern-day pirates.
Edward Marriott is the author of The Lost Tribe (Holt, 0-8050-5318-2), a finalist for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and a New York Times Best Travel Book. He lives in London.
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