Author: Randy Wayne White
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Hilarious & true tales of adventure & travel by the author of the highly acclaimed "Batfishing in the Rainforest."
The Sharks of Lake Nicaragua
Author: Randy Wayne White
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Hilarious & true tales of adventure & travel by the author of the highly acclaimed "Batfishing in the Rainforest."
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Hilarious & true tales of adventure & travel by the author of the highly acclaimed "Batfishing in the Rainforest."
Savage Shore
Author: Edward Marriott
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 1250108977
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Nicaragua's Atlantic coast is home to the most dangerous of fish, the bull shark, a lethal predator with a fearsome appetite and the only shark that swims in inland waters. Braving Nicaragua's hurricane-torn wilderness of mangrove swamps, Edward Marriott joins the last surviving shark fishermen to sail in a dugout canoe and fish for sharks with a hand line. As Marriott charts the life of the bull shark, its migrations, its voracious feeding patterns, and the treasures it offers -- oil for vitamins, hide for leather, and fins for soup -- he reveals lives spent in fear and awe in the shadow of a monster that can sniff fresh blood a mile away. He also tells a tale of human greed: an elemental community, battered by civil war and natural disasters, is now degraded beyond repair to the point of providing bounty for modern-day pirates. A gripping narrative of risk and adventure, a poignant record of loss and corruption, Savage Shore confirms Marriott as one of our most original and insightful travel writers.
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 1250108977
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Nicaragua's Atlantic coast is home to the most dangerous of fish, the bull shark, a lethal predator with a fearsome appetite and the only shark that swims in inland waters. Braving Nicaragua's hurricane-torn wilderness of mangrove swamps, Edward Marriott joins the last surviving shark fishermen to sail in a dugout canoe and fish for sharks with a hand line. As Marriott charts the life of the bull shark, its migrations, its voracious feeding patterns, and the treasures it offers -- oil for vitamins, hide for leather, and fins for soup -- he reveals lives spent in fear and awe in the shadow of a monster that can sniff fresh blood a mile away. He also tells a tale of human greed: an elemental community, battered by civil war and natural disasters, is now degraded beyond repair to the point of providing bounty for modern-day pirates. A gripping narrative of risk and adventure, a poignant record of loss and corruption, Savage Shore confirms Marriott as one of our most original and insightful travel writers.
Wild Shore
Author: Edward Marriott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780330354509
Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780330354509
Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Crystal Bay
Author: Jerry Carducci
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692908068
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In a remote jungle, off the edge of Lake Nicaragua, a poor fisherman catches the fish of a lifetime, a four hundred pound bull shark. The fisherman tries to sell his catch to the cook of a freighter, something he has done before. As the big fish is brought aboard the ships kitchen, the stretcher they use to carry it snaps and the fish slides headlong across the steel floor plates and crashes under the sink, where a loose plate pivots, sending the body of the shark into the dark bilge below. There are two surprises, the fish is not dead and she is pregnant with twelve live born sharks. The sharks eat the body of the mother and a host of bilge rats on the voyage North to Lake Erie and the steel mills of Detroit and Cleveland. Thirty miles away from Cleveland on the way to their last stop, Detroit, the ageing ship strikes a hard rock shoal off of the coast of Ohio. The twenty foot gash in the hull opens a new and existing world to the sharks, which are nearly a year old due to repairs and legal problems of the ships owners. The wreck in late November, when the water is traditionally low, was preceded by an unu-sual event called a "Polar Vortex." This rare change of weather brings temperatures of -14 below and the freezing of Lake Erie for the winter. The sharks first explore and then dominate their new world, feasting voraciously on the lo-cal walleye and steelhead trout populations. The fresh water and their internal cycling of it puts their metabolism on steroids. The unlimited supply of easy food and the constant recycling of fresh water out of their systems, causes the sharks to grow at an unattainable rate in nature. The spring thaw opens a new world to the sharks, a bright and green water world where there is other food than walleye and trout; there is a new food source abundant upon the surface, a mammal with salt sweat and warm flesh, not that much unlike the rats in their birthplace, the bilge. Winter is waning and the ice is melted by mid-April. The new season will introduce a fierce, new predator in the waters. The "Pack," now twelve strong and over a thousand pounds each, are waiting for the warmer waters of spring and the arrival of humans on the water. The lake has a new predator it hasn't seen since the ice age, large sharks, bull sharks, sharks of the worst kind; hungry, strong, and above all, mean spirited by nature, a perfect cold blooded killer.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692908068
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In a remote jungle, off the edge of Lake Nicaragua, a poor fisherman catches the fish of a lifetime, a four hundred pound bull shark. The fisherman tries to sell his catch to the cook of a freighter, something he has done before. As the big fish is brought aboard the ships kitchen, the stretcher they use to carry it snaps and the fish slides headlong across the steel floor plates and crashes under the sink, where a loose plate pivots, sending the body of the shark into the dark bilge below. There are two surprises, the fish is not dead and she is pregnant with twelve live born sharks. The sharks eat the body of the mother and a host of bilge rats on the voyage North to Lake Erie and the steel mills of Detroit and Cleveland. Thirty miles away from Cleveland on the way to their last stop, Detroit, the ageing ship strikes a hard rock shoal off of the coast of Ohio. The twenty foot gash in the hull opens a new and existing world to the sharks, which are nearly a year old due to repairs and legal problems of the ships owners. The wreck in late November, when the water is traditionally low, was preceded by an unu-sual event called a "Polar Vortex." This rare change of weather brings temperatures of -14 below and the freezing of Lake Erie for the winter. The sharks first explore and then dominate their new world, feasting voraciously on the lo-cal walleye and steelhead trout populations. The fresh water and their internal cycling of it puts their metabolism on steroids. The unlimited supply of easy food and the constant recycling of fresh water out of their systems, causes the sharks to grow at an unattainable rate in nature. The spring thaw opens a new world to the sharks, a bright and green water world where there is other food than walleye and trout; there is a new food source abundant upon the surface, a mammal with salt sweat and warm flesh, not that much unlike the rats in their birthplace, the bilge. Winter is waning and the ice is melted by mid-April. The new season will introduce a fierce, new predator in the waters. The "Pack," now twelve strong and over a thousand pounds each, are waiting for the warmer waters of spring and the arrival of humans on the water. The lake has a new predator it hasn't seen since the ice age, large sharks, bull sharks, sharks of the worst kind; hungry, strong, and above all, mean spirited by nature, a perfect cold blooded killer.
The Reproduction and Development of the Bull Shark, Carcharhinus Leucas, in the Lake Nicaragua-Rio San Juan System
Author: Norman Howard Jensen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bull shark
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bull shark
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
An Investigation of the Feeding Habits of the Bull Shark, Carcharhinus Leucas, in the Lake Nicaragua
Author: Robert Eugene Tuma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Sharks of North America
Author: Jose I. Castro
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195392949
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
A complete reference to all the sharks inhabiting North American waters, with excellent color illustrations of all the species.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195392949
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
A complete reference to all the sharks inhabiting North American waters, with excellent color illustrations of all the species.
The Sharks
Author: Robert Forrest Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sharks
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Examines the various species of the shark family, how they are useful to science, and what is being done to preserve them. Also traces man's fears and superstitions about sharks.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sharks
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Examines the various species of the shark family, how they are useful to science, and what is being done to preserve them. Also traces man's fears and superstitions about sharks.
Wild Shore
Author: Edward Marriott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780330354493
Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780330354493
Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Lake Nicaragua Fisheries Survey
Author: William Donald Davies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description