Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & the Sea

SHARK LIfe is exceptionally entertaining and enlightening nonfiction for young adults. Benchley (the author of JAWS) moves back and forth between recounting his own heart-stopping adventures in the sea (sometimes purposely swimming with sharks and other deadly creatures, sometimes accidentally encountering them), and his simple and clear explanations of how man's interference with the balance of the world's oceans has already resulted in some dying regions. He cautions how further degradation of the seas will eventually threaten man's existence on the planet.

It is one of my favorite books, the stories are AMAZING! I love Manta Rays.

Though intended for a young adult audience, Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & The Sea is too good not to recommend for adults, as well - especially given all the news about shark attacks. Benchley, best known for his novel JAWS and the movies which erupted from it, here draws on over four decades of diving experience to explore sharks and other animals he's encountered. From touching encounters to presumptions and near-disastrous mistakes, Shark Life is first-person adventure - and shark science - at its best.

Peter Benchley is an Awesome writer. He is very casual in his writing but still very substantial. You can't help but love Peter Benchley. He's also very comical. In one part of the book he says 'why did I have to write a book about sharks? (speaking of Jaws)...why not a book about... I don't know a puppy dog?' This is a great book for Shark and sea lovers. GREAT book!!!!!