If you are one of those imaginative people who in fancy or reality would like to enter another world where none of the ordinary rules apply, and where on every hand scenes new to the eye of man unfold in endless succession, then "The Silent World" is the book for you. It is the story of Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau of the French Navy and of his development of the "aqualung."… The book is profusely illustrated and the underwater shots, particularly those in full color, are extraordinary.

Captain Cousteau tells of exploring sunken ships, including a Roman galley filled with a cargo of wine jars, some of them still sealed and bearing the initials of ancient Greek wine merchants, and of retrieving antique marble and statuary looted from the Greeks by the conquering Romans and lost at sea centuries ago. With Captain Cousteau one enters drowned caverns into which...