★An illuminating survey of sharks, their epic migrations and sometimes mysterious solo journeys.
★Michael Bright is a shark expert as well as a prolific author and documentary maker.

Sharks embark on extraordinary journeys. Some travel thousands of miles across the world’s oceans, taking weeks or even months to reach their destinations, while others rise up from the depths, undertaking a there-andback vertical migration of a mile or more in a single day.

Why, though, do they travel such distances and how do they find their way? Sharks: Ocean Travellers explores the latest research and explains some of the many mysteries of shark migration.

Michael Bright reveals the adaptations that allow sharks to perform feats of extreme navigation, such as their astonishing electromagnetic ‘6th sense’ that not only catches the electrical activity in the muscles of their prey, but can also detect the Earth’s geomagnetic field.

He also addresses the danger inherent in shark migrations, including shark attacks on humans, but more commonly for the sharks themselves, who are hunted for their fins and increasingly threatened by the fishing industry.

Michael Bright
is a freelance author and scriptwriter who was previously an executive producer with the BBC Natural History Unit. He was a recipient of the prestigious Prix Italia for the programme Men, Nations and Whales: will the bloody story ever end?

He is the author of over 90 books on natural history, natural sciences, conservation and the environment, including many on Sharks.