Culture | Deep blue sea
Humankind’s odd need to catch sharks
The monsters of the deep kill maybe 20 humans a year. Humans kill 73m sharks
Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean. By Morten Stroksnes. Translated by Tiina Nunnally. Knopf; 320 pages; $26.95. Jonathan Cape; £12.99.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Deep and dark”
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