Jacques-Yves Cousteau
1910-1997
French diver who spent 60 years exploring the world's oceans. Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born in a small town near Bordeaux, France, in 1910. Although he was a si...
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Jacques Yves Cousteau
1910-1997
French Oceanographer and Documentary Filmmaker
Traveling around the world aboard his ship the Calypso, oceanographer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau made underwater...
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Cousteau, Jacques-Yves (1910-1997)
French oceanographer
Jacques Cousteau was known as the co-inventor of the aqualung, along with his television programs, feature-length films, and books, all of which...
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Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997)
Jacques Cousteau is the world's most acclaimed producer of underwater film documentaries. His adventurous spirit and undersea explorations, documented in over fort...
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910 – 1997) French Oceanographer, Inventor, Photographer, Explorer, and Environmentalist
When most people think of marine biology, the person that immediately comes to m...
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Cousteau Society, The
The Cousteau Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to marine research, especially underwater exploration and filmmaking. Created in 1973 by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and h...
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Cousteau, Jacques Marine Environmental Protection Advocate (1910–1997)
Jacques Yves Cousteau was the twentieth century's best-known advocate for marine environmental protection. He produ...
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Jacques Cousteau
Born June 11, 1910, Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France
Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s name is virtually synonymous with exploration of the earth’s oceans and rivers. A leadin...
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997) was an undersea explorer, photographer, inventor of diving devices, writer, television producer, and filmmaker. He was also active in the movement to safeguard the oc...
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau is perhaps the most well-known modern scuba diver and undersea explorer. He brought the world of undersea diving within the capabilities of ordinary people by inventing (with Emi...
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Jacques Cousteau was known worldwide through his television programs, feature-length films, and books, all of which have focused on the wonders and tragedies of the marine world. Through these films a...
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Critical Essay by Rachel L. Carson
"We have tried to find the entrance to the great hydrosphere because we feel that the sea age is soon to come."
So Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a F...
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Critical Essay by Nelson Bryant
["Life and Death in a Coral Sea" is] the absorbing story of the Cousteau teams' investigation of coral reefs in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. C...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
Diving for Sunken Treasure is a popular account of M Cousteau's expedition to the site of what he believes to be the Silver Bank, near Puerto Ric...
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Critical Essay by H. J. Cargas
The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau promises to be an epic. Having seen [Oasis in Space, The Act of Life, and Quest for Food], the first three volumes of the 20 book set...
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Critical Essay by Science Books
[Three Adventures: Galápagos, Titicaca, The Blue Holes] is the account of three unrelated trips by Cousteau and his film crew to the Galápagos, the Andes ...
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Critical Essay by Betty Minemier
The 20-volume set, The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau, is Grolier's answer to increasing demands for authoritative, attractive, accessible materials on the new...
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Critical Essay by Philip Morrison and Phylis Morrison
The bulk of the beautifully illustrated volume [Dolphins] recounts the dolphin experiences of Cousteau and the others over nearly 30 years: follow...
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Critical Essay by Dorothy Needham
Countless secrets of the sea are revealed in ["The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau," a] thrilling multidimensional study of the ocean's wonders, ...
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Critical Essay by Booklist
The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau (hereafter Ocean World) is a 20-volume set concerned with the oceans generally and, more specifically, with marine life and exploration. ...
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Critical Essay by Michael Allaby
Jacques-Yves Cousteau is that cliché, the "living legend". Strangers walk up to shake him by the hand and accept his autograph signed on any scrap...
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Critical Essay by James P. Sterba
It is difficult to criticize anything with Jacques Cousteau's name on it, especially a book as beautiful to look at as ["The Ocean World"]. Capta...
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Critical Essay by Robert C. Cowen
Reading Jacques-Yves Cousteau's captivating new book ["The Living Sea"], I had a strong impulse to hand in this review and immediately take off t...
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Critical Essay by Desmond Young
Recently, as the exploration of the oceans and the sea-bed has become less commercial and more scientific in purpose, books about diving have won a wide readership. All...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
Although the trumpetings of jacket blurbs should not be taken too seriously there is one phrase that never fails to arouse the reviewer's suspici...
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Critical Essay by The New Yorker
[Jacques and Philippe Cousteau] recently (1967–68) spent about a year studying sharks at point-blank range in the Red Sea and in the western Indian Ocean, and i...
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Critical Essay by Joseph T. Evans
[The Shark] consists of a series of fascinating narrations by the world famous underwater explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his son Philippe. It concerns their prepa...
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Critical Essay by E. F. Bartley
There is no question about the fact that Jacques Cousteau is an interesting showman as well as a competent researcher of the ocean depths. That he writes well is attest...
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Cousteau was named a captin of the French navy in 1948.He became president of the French Oceanographic Campaigns.Cousteau made a lot of films and published many books. Some of his films are the Sil...
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