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Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King

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Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King

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 Cousteauâ€™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 Franceâ€™s Croix de Guerre); developingâ€”and risking his life to testâ€”the regulator that made scuba diving possible; running the worldâ€™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 mistressâ€”forty years his junior and the mother of two of his childrenâ€”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 Cousteauâ€™s life, Matsen paints a luminous portrait of a man who profoundly changed the way we view, and treat, our planet.
Country USA
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 037542413X_Good
ReleaseDate 2009-10-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375424137

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