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Here is Peter Benchley’s classic suspense novel of shark versus man, which was made into the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie. The Jaws phenomenon changed popular culture and continues to inspire a growing interest in sharks and the oceans today.
When Peter Benchley wrote Jaws in the early 1970s, he meticulously researched all available data about shark behavior. Over the ensuing decades, Benchley was actively engaged with scientists and filmmakers on expeditions around the world as they expanded their knowledge of sharks. Also during this time, there was an unprecedented upswing in the number of sharks killed to make shark-fin soup, and Benchley worked with governments and nonprofits to sound the alarm for shark conservation. He encouraged each new generation of Jaws fans to enjoy his riveting tale and to channel their excitement into support and protection of these magnificent, prehistoric apex predators.
This edition of Jaws contains bonus content from Peter Benchley’s archives, including the original typed title page, a brainstorming list of possible titles, a letter from Benchley to producer David Brown with honest feedback on the movie adaptation, and excerpts from Benchley’s book Shark Trouble highlighting his firsthand account of writing Jaws, selling it to Universal Studios, and working with Steven Spielberg.
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blue sharks, dolphins, shark cage diving, bang sticks, harpoons, Mafia, selectmen, connivance, great white sharks, thrillers, horror fiction, Fiction, Marine biologists, Police chiefs, Seaside resorts, Shark attacks, Sharks, Sea stories, Fiction, horror, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Jaws (Motion picture), Fiction, sea stories, Scientists, fiction, white shark, shark fishing, United states, fiction, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, American fiction, Translations into Spanish, Spanish fiction, Literatura estadounidense, Roman espagnol, FishesPeople
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Jaws: 大白鲨
2018-01-01, People's Literature Publishing House
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Jaws: A Novel
2013, Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
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Jaws
2005, Random House
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Jaws: Les dents de la mer
1975, LES ÉDITIONS INTERNATIONALES ALAIN STANKÉ/HACHETTE LITTÉRATURE
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Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of Montauk, New York shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period when Benchley worked as a freelance journalist.
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