The Devils Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among Americas Great White Sharks

Journalist Susan Casey joins a strange band of surferscientists on a remote island off the California coast for some close encounters with the jaws of the worlds most mysterious and fearsome predators in the New York Times bestseller, The Devils Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among Americas Great White Sharks.Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count; even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twentyseven miles off the coast of San Francisco.In a matter of months, Casey was being hoisted out of the earlywinter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Islanddubbed by sailors in the 1850s the devils teeth. There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the islands one habitable building, a haunted, 135yearold house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsessionand an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eightweek stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years.The Devils Teeth is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.