What Were the Shark Attacks of 1916?

Name: What Were the Shark Attacks of 1916?
Brand: Penguin Workshop
SKU: 9780593521588-PRUSDTR-US
Price: 54.0 HKD
Availability: InStock

Nico Medina (Author) • Tim Foley (Illustrator) ... more

What Was? (Series) ... more

Edition: US - Paperback / softback

Variant

Price:

HK$54.00 HK$79.90

Stock:

In stock - dispatch in 4 working days

Quantity:

Product Info

English • Age 8 - 12

112 pages • 5.3125 x 7.625 in

Approx. weight: 0.25 lb

Publication date: 09 Apr,2024

Barcode: 9780593521588 • Penguin Workshop

More books in English for Age 8 - 12

Children’s / Teenage general interest: Nature and animals

Children’s / Teenage general interest: Fish and marine life
Children’s / Teenage social topics: Accidents disasters or emergencies
Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past

Share this product

By: Nico Medina, Who HQ | Illustrator: Tim Foley

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.

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. 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.” 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.