VERY GOOD CONDITION

This sale is for a large size vintage hardback edition entitled “The Silent World,” by J. Y. Cousteau, with Frederic Dumas, with a special Introduction by Jacques Cousteau for the 1987 edition.

It was published in large print in 1989, by Clio Press of Oxford, in 1989 as an ISIS Large Print volume.

Although a French national, Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau wrote this classic book in English.  Cousteau and Émile Gagnan designed, built, and tested the first "aqua-lung" in the summer of 1943, off the southern coast of France. In the opening chapters, Cousteau recounts the earliest days of scuba diving with his diving companions Frédéric Dumas and Philippe Tailliez. The aqualung allowed for the first time untethered, free-floating extended deep water diving, and ushered in the modern era of scuba diving. Later chapters include excursions diving to shipwrecks.  The book was the basis of the Academy Award-winning 1956 documentary The Silent World.

The contents include:

·        Introduction to the 1987 Edition

·        Menfish

·        Rapture of the Deep

·        Sunken Ships

·        Undersea Research Group

·        Cave Diving

·        Treasure Below

·        The Drowned Museum

·        Fifty Fathoms Down

·        The Submarine Dirigible

·        Sea Companions

·        Monsters We Have Met

·        Shark Close-Ups

·        Beyond the Barrier

·        Where Blood Flows Green

·        Epilogue

The book measures 9.5 inches x 6.25 inches and has 195 pages.

The book is in good, neat condition for its age – internally clean and bright.  There are NO inscriptions/bookplates and NO ink or pencil writings/markings in the book.  The binding is good with no loose or missing pages.  The hardback cover is a pictorial one, I am not sure is this edition was therefore issued with a dust-jacket.

A wonderful easy-to-read edition.

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