My father, the Captain: My life with Jacques Cousteau
Cousteau, J.-M.; Paisner, D. (2010). My father, the Captain: My life with Jacques Cousteau. National Geographic Society: Washington, DC. ISBN 978-1-4262-0683-2. 255 pp.
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VLIZ: Personal and Institutional Histories PER.218 [104850]
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Oceanographers
Marine/Coastal |
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- Cousteau, J.-M.
- Paisner, D.
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In every legend, there is a legacy. In the life and career of undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, that legacy beats in the heart of the sea and in the heart of his son, Jean-Michel, the noted French environmentalist, educator and documentary film producer who has spent most of his adult life nurturing the work of his famous father. In My Father, The Captain, Jean-Michel Cousteau takes an open and intimate look at the life he shared with his father, and the legend he has taken it upon himself to carry. In so doing, he hopes to shed new and meaningful light on the life and work of a man who inspired millions to reconsider our relationship with the sea and its creatures-and, in the process, to understand a little more about himself and his family as well. "Captain Cousteau was a complicated man," the younger Cousteau writes. "He was a man of many different personalities, many different moods. But this is how it is with all great men, yes? We know the public mask, but it is the private face that reveals a man's true character. It is the man we know when the cameras are not filming." |
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