An edition of Jacques Cousteau: the sea king (2009)

Jacques Cousteau

the sea king

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An edition of Jacques Cousteau: the sea king (2009)

Jacques Cousteau

the sea king

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Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau's collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this remarkable life. Here is Cousteau working for the French resistance during World War II (for which he received France's Croix de Guerre); developing--and risking his life to test--the regulator that made scuba diving possible; running the world's largest scuba equipment manufacturing firm; becoming a legendary catalyst of the worldwide environmental movement; starring in The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau and in hundreds of documentaries; and publishing more than fifty books. And here is the widowed Cousteau marrying his longtime mistress--forty years his junior and the mother of two of his children--kindling a bitter family feud that continues to this day. Vividly conveying the people, the adventure, the science, and the lure of the sea that shaped Cousteau's life, Matsen paints a luminous portrait of a man who profoundly changed the way we view, and treat, our planet.From the Hardcover edition.

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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Language
English

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Cover of: Jacques Cousteau
Jacques Cousteau
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Cover of: Jacques Cousteau
Jacques Cousteau: the sea king
2009, Pantheon Books
Hardcover in English

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Table of Contents

Prelude : Autumn 1977
La Bergère
Les Mousquemers
Breathing underwater
Sixty Feet Down
Scuba
Shipwrecks
The fountain
Menfish
The abyss
Calypso
Il Faut Aller Voir
Fame
Living underwater
World Without Sun
The undersea world of David Wolper
An honest witness
Oasis In Space
Odyssey
Moving on
Captain outrageous
Rediscovering the world
Chaos
Epilogue
A note about the author

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
551.46092, B
Library of Congress
GC30.C68 M38 2009

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xvii, 296 p.
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23192280M
Internet Archive
jacquescousteaus0000mats
ISBN 10
037542413X
ISBN 13
9780375424137
LCCN
2009011640
OCLC/WorldCat
299708162
Library Thing
8923133
Goodreads
6799839

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