In the Name of Sharks

François Sarano is an oceanographer, professional diver and former expedition leader of the Calypso, the research ship of Jacques Cousteau. He is research director of the Deep Ocean Odyssey program and co-founder of the Longitude 181 association, which is dedicated to understanding and protecting the oceans. He has written and served as a consultant for numerous films and documentaries including Oceans.

• Foreword by Sandra Bessudo  Introduction: Giving the ‘Voiceless’ a Voice  1.    A Matter of Misunderstanding: From Pliny to Disney  2.    Shark? What Shark?  3.    Giving Life  4.    Inside the Shark’s Head  5.    On the Road to Personality  6.    The Shark, Where it Belongs  7.    The Ocean is their Garden  8.    Fading Silhouettes  9.    The Confrontation  10.   Reconciliation  NotesList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIndex

"In a prior incarnation, François Sarano lived as a shark. Here he shares the experiences of swimming, sensing, feeding and thinking as a shark. The book is a brilliant and beautiful advance towards interspecies communication."Jesse Ausubel, The Rockefeller University, New York City"When it comes to our relations with sharks, there’s a lot that needs fixing. Sarano’s passionate, eye-opening book sets the record straight about one of the most misunderstood and unfairly demonized groups of animals on Earth."Jonathan Balcombe, author of What a Fish Knows and A Boy and a Fish"stimulating… Sarano’s deep reverence for his subject undergirds his passionate account of how harvesting millions of sharks each year for their fins and liver oil (which is used in beauty creams) has put more than a third of all shark and ray (their close cousins) species at risk of extinction. Wide-ranging and accessible, this is worth diving into."Publishers Weekly