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From cookiecutters to megamouths

By Michael Cross

26 October 2002

The Shark Chronicles: A scientist tracks the consummate predator by John Musick and Beverly McMillan, Times Books, $26, ISBN 0805070931 Reviewed by Michael Cross

IN A Jaws movie, Jack Musick would meet a grisly end halfway through reel three. He’s the wild-haired boffin who slides down the great white’s gullet exclaiming that this magnificent creature should be cherished not killed. In real life, if The Shark Chronicles (written with Beverly McMillan) is any guide, the shark scientist’s lot is less predictable though hardly less dramatic. The book, written in the first person singular, is a collection of colourful sketches of…

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