Sharks The Sleek and The Savage: with up close and underwater personal encounters - Paperback

by Mary L. Peachin (Author)

From Kirkus Indie review: This aquatic exploration is a hefty to me that examines different species of sharks, traits and characteristics that make sharks unique and the many kinds of interactions that humans have with sharks. Within each chapter, numerous headings and subheadings delineate changes in subject matter, giving the book an encyclopedic feel that is tempered by the author's use of her personal experiences to illustrate certain points.Originally published as The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sharks (Alpha/Penguin) in 2003, this new text includes updated information, all presented in non-scientific terminology, including new shark species as well as up close and personal shark encounters experienced by the author as well as her dive buddies and others.

Author Biography

Mary L. Peachin is an award-winning freelance writer who first published Sharks The Sleek and The Savage in 2003 as The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sharks (Alpha/Penguin). She is the author of Scuba Caribbean (University Press Florida) and Sport Fishing in the Caribbean (not yet released.) Since 1996, she has published an adventure travel newsletter, www.peachin.com. Peachin has been widely published in both newspapers and magazines, her photographic images are represented worldwide by Lonely Planet Images. When she can't be found on the water, she lives in Tucson, Arizona.