Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of Close to Shore : The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916

Close to Shore : The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
reviewed on + 158 more book reviews


Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly recreates the summer of 1916, when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and lanching the most extensive shark hunt in history.