Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King
by Matsen, Bradford
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 037542413X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375424137
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Pantheon Books, 2009. Hardcover. Good/Good. 104x24x156. An x-library copy. 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 Cousteauâs 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 Franceâs Croix de Guerre); developingâand risking his life to testâthe regulator that made scuba diving possible; running the worldâs 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 mistressâforty years his junior and the mother of two of his childrenâkindling 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 Cousteauâs life, Matsen paints a luminous portrait of a man who profoundly changed the way we view, and treat, our planet.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010027153
- Title
- Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King
- Author
- Matsen, Bradford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 037542413X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375424137
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 104x24x156
- X weight
- 23 oz
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- X-Library
- A former library book, generally containing library acquisition and ownership stamped markings, and other typical indications of...