Before Jaws (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, Estados Unidos de AmericaGrand Eagle Retail
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Paperback. Before the mechanical shark terrified a generation of moviegoers. Before Peter Benchley put the world's greatest fear into words. Before the summer of 1975 made ocean swimming feel like a gamble, there was the summer of 1916. And what happened that summer was real. In twelve days along the New Jersey coastline, a marine predator killed four people and wounded a fifth, penetrating eleven miles inland through brackish creek water that everyone assumed was completely safe. Scientists insisted such attacks were impossible. Officials had no protocols to follow because no one had imagined protocols might be needed. Families waded into the Atlantic with complete confidence, and that confidence cost lives. BEFORE JAWS tells the full story of America's first recorded series of fatal shark attacks with the depth, accuracy, and human honesty those events have always deserved. Drawing on newspaper archives, medical records, family histories, and more than a century of subsequent marine research, this book reconstructs not only what happened but why it happened and what it ultimately meant. Meet Charles Vansant, a twenty-three-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate enjoying a family holiday at Beach Haven who became the first victim on the first day of July. Meet Charles Bruder, a Swiss immigrant bellhop whose death five days later shattered the last illusions of coastal safety. Meet Lester Stillwell, an eleven-year-old boy swimming in a creek eleven miles from the ocean who encountered something that science said could not be there. Meet Stanley Fisher, the twenty-four-year-old dry goods store clerk who dove into that same creek to save Lester knowing full well what lurked beneath the surface, and who paid for that courage with his life. And meet Joseph Dunn, the twelve-year-old boy who went into the water and came back out again, carrying wounds and memories that would stay with him for the remaining fifty-eight years of his life. BEFORE JAWS is also the story of what came after. The scientific revolution that transformed marine biology from an obscure academic specialty into a field with direct consequences for human safety and environmental policy. The media frenzy that established patterns of sensational reporting still recognizable today. The cultural mythology that grew around the events until fact and legend became nearly inseparable. And the long shadow these twelve days cast over American beach culture, ultimately inspiring one of the most commercially successful novels and films in entertainment history. This is the story that started everything. It happened before anyone had the language to describe it, before science had the tools to explain it, and before American society had any framework for understanding that the ocean it had claimed as its summer playground was shared with predators of extraordinary capability. The terror was real. The heroism was real. The transformation was permanent. BEFORE JAWS tells you exactly how it happened, and why more than a century later it still matters. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798199997911
- Título
- Before Jaws (Paperback)
- Autor
- Joseph C. Dempsey
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798199997911
And what happened that summer was real.
In twelve days along the New Jersey coastline, a marine predator killed four people and wounded a fifth, penetrating eleven miles inland through brackish creek water that everyone assumed was completely safe. Scientists insisted such attacks were impossible. Officials had no protocols to follow because no one had imagined protocols might be needed. Families waded into the Atlantic with complete confidence, and that confidence cost lives.
BEFORE JAWS tells the full story of America's first recorded series of fatal shark attacks with the depth, accuracy, and human honesty those events have always deserved. Drawing on newspaper archives, medical records, family histories, and more than a century of subsequent marine research, this book reconstructs not only what happened but why it happened and what it ultimately meant.
Meet Charles Vansant, a twenty-three-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate enjoying a family holiday at Beach Haven who became the first victim on the first day of July. Meet Charles Bruder, a Swiss immigrant bellhop whose death five days later shattered the last illusions of coastal safety. Meet Lester Stillwell, an eleven-year-old boy swimming in a creek eleven miles from the ocean who encountered something that science said could not be there. Meet Stanley Fisher, the twenty-four-year-old dry goods store clerk who dove into that same creek to save Lester knowing full well what lurked beneath the surface, and who paid for that courage with his life.
And meet Joseph Dunn, the twelve-year-old boy who went into the water and came back out again, carrying wounds and memories that would stay with him for the remaining fifty-eight years of his life.
BEFORE JAWS is also the story of what came after. The scientific revolution that transformed marine biology from an obscure academic specialty into a field with direct consequences for human safety and environmental policy. The media frenzy that established patterns of sensational reporting still recognizable today. The cultural mythology that grew around the events until fact and legend became nearly inseparable. And the long shadow these twelve days cast over American beach culture, ultimately inspiring one of the most commercially successful novels and films in entertainment history.
This is the story that started everything. It happened before anyone had the language to describe it, before science had the tools to explain it, and before American society had any framework for understanding that the ocean it had claimed as its summer playground was shared with predators of extraordinary capability.
The terror was real. The heroism was real. The transformation was permanent.
BEFORE JAWS tells you exactly how it happened, and why more than a century later it still matters.
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