Juliet Eilperin
In Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks (Pantheon, $26.95), environmental reporter Juliet Eilperin ventures from Indonesia to Japan to Africa to North America in dauntless pursuit of answers to questions that few writers have asked: Why do we approach sharks with such runaway emotion? Why do we sometime fear, sometimes revere these fish? And of course the big one: after surviving all five global mass extinctions, can sharks make it through another decade of co-existing with humans?
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