![]() ![]() Increasingly aware of the public fixation with sharks following the publication of Jaws – and Spielberg's subsequent film – Benchley spent the rest of his life campaigning for the safety of these incredible creatures, which have evolved over 450 million years but face being hunted to extinction in a century. ![]() Like the residents of Amity, the reader is constantly braced for another grisly dismembering, and the longer the predator remains at large, the more is revealed about the murky dealings among the town’s authorities. As much about the corrupt workings of a Long Island town as it is about shark attacks, Jaws nevertheless demonised the Great White by homing in on our innate fears. ![]()
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