CONVICTED: How Fear Sentenced the Ocean's Greatest Predator($16.99Value)

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They were here before the trees. Before the dinosaurs. Before the flowers. Before anything we recognize as the modern world. Sharks have patrolled these oceans with a sophistication that still humbles our best scientists — and for decades we have been systematically destroying them based on a story that was never true. Convicted is not a book about shark attacks. It is a book about what we did to an animal we never bothered to understand. Through sixteen dismantled myths and seventeen unforgettable shark profiles — from the Greenland shark that has been alive since before America existed, to the twenty-inch shark that bites nuclear submarines, to the goblin shark that launches its jaw clean off its face to seize prey — Andy Bennett builds a portrait of a world we are losing faster than we are learning to see it. This is the book that introduces you to the thresher shark that hunts with physics. To the wobbegong, which forgot it was supposed to look like a shark. To the oceanic whitetip — once the most abundant large animal on earth, now headed toward extinction within a human lifetime. To seventeen animals so extraordinary that by the last page you will feel their absence differently than you did on the first. Convicted does not ask you to love sharks. It asks you to look at them honestly — and then it makes that very hard to stop doing.