{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-sharks-paperback","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Sharks (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Sharks is a large-format coffee table book in black and white: sharks, printed edge to edge, one picture to a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens with the attack, and with the reason it comes from below: the light comes from above, so a dark back vanishes against the depths while anything above is drawn in outline. A breach is the end of a vertical charge begun far down, the animal committing at full speed and carrying clear of the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the shapes, which are the argument of the book: the hammer held out sideways, the scythe tail longer than the body that swings it, the enormous filter-feeder that eats nothing it has to chase. Then speed, and the eye, and the animals at rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the numbers: a spiral of hammerheads receding into deep water, and a school turning together far above any bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then the close range (the skin, the scars, the teeth that sit outside a closed mouth, an egg case anchored to rock by its tendrils) before the book ends in silhouette and last light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book. Each one is about the animal rather than the picture: why the mako keeps its swimming muscle warmer than the sea, why a shark sinks the moment it stops swimming, and why the largest sharks eat the smallest prey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68137863479600,"sku":"9671456001975","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456001975.jpg?v=1792524445","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-sharks-paperback","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}