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 JerseyтАФthe 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 тАЬWar on Sharks.тАЭ In this audiobook, listeners will learn about the likely culprit (or culprits) in the attacksтАФthe great white shark and the bull sharkтАФand how the bloody summer of 1916 would change how people viewed sharks forever.