The True Story of Great White Sharks

The Devil's Teeth

This New York Times Bestseller is an extraordinary adventure in pursuit of that most frightening and fascinating of fish, the Great White Shark.

Chilling and vivid ... lively and detailed

An adventure guaranteed to scare you right out of the water

Susan Casey, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Devil's Teeth, and The Wave: In Pursuit of the Ocean's Greatest Furies. She is the Editor-in-Chief of O, the Oprah Magazine, and has also served as creative director of Outside magazine.

A New York Times Bestseller. 
 
Great white sharks are enigmas. They ruled the oceans long before dinosaurs inhabited the earth, yet we know surprisingly little about them. Scientists speculate they can live for 60 years and grow to a massive 20 feet long. They heal miraculously from severe injuries and can sense a heartbeat from miles away. 
 
There is one place on earth where it is possible to study great whites in the wild: a spooky outcrop of jagged rocks off the coast of San Francisco. This godforsaken island is home to a handful of shark-obsessed scientists, ready to endanger their lives just to get close. 
 
This is a riveting adventure about great white sharks and the power they have over us.

Susan Casey

An enthralling story of... pursuit of the most mesmerizing- and terrifying- freaks of nature ever seen

Arguably the best book yet written about big-wave surfing

Fascinating, heroic, dazzling, terrifying, amazing, mesmerizing, instructive, enlightening, superb. This is the Dragon Tattoo, Moby-Dick, Into Thin Air for our time

Examines big waves from every angle, and goes in deep with... mariners, wave scientists and extreme surfers... [A] wonderfully vivid, kinetic narrative

Immensely powerful, beautiful, addictive and, yes, incredibly thrilling... Like a surfer who is happily hooked, the reader simply won't be able to get enough of it

In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies

Some people are drawn towards nature at its most extreme - and it doesn't get more extreme than giant waves. 
 
These deadly waves have a strangely hypnotic pull on two types of person: for scientists and super-surfers, rogue waves are a grail, and they will go to dangerous lengths to hunt them down. 
 
This is a white-knuckle ride with the men who live to catch rogue waves. It zips from Lloyds of London to rusty oil rigs, tropical Tahitian surf shacks to super-computer data labs. Find out what happens when nature confronts nature at her most ferocious.

Susan Casey

Praise for The Wave

An enthralling story of... pursuit of the most mesmerizing- and terrifying- freaks of nature ever seen

Arguably the best book yet written about big-wave surfing

Fascinating, heroic, dazzling, terrifying, amazing, mesmerizing, instructive, enlightening, superb. This is the Dragon Tattoo, Moby-Dick, Into Thin Air for our time

An enthralling story of... pursuit of the most mesmerizing- and terrifying- freaks of nature ever seen

Arguably the best book yet written about big-wave surfing

Fascinating, heroic, dazzling, terrifying, amazing, mesmerizing, instructive, enlightening, superb. This is the Dragon Tattoo, Moby-Dick, Into Thin Air for our time

An enthralling story of... pursuit of the most mesmerizing- and terrifying- freaks of nature ever seen

Arguably the best book yet written about big-wave surfing

Fascinating, heroic, dazzling, terrifying, amazing, mesmerizing, instructive, enlightening, superb. This is the Dragon Tattoo, Moby-Dick, Into Thin Air for our time

Books by Susan Casey

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