9781590171134

The Silent World

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9781590171134

Paperback|9781590171134


Overview

In The Silent World, Cousteau describes in colorful French-accented English the adventures that paved the way to his remarkable discoveries: his work defusing undetonated torpedoes in the Bay of Nice during World War II; his perilous experimental forays with untried equipment into deeper and deeper levels of the sea; discoveries in sunken ships; observing the animal life of the oceans (whales and porpoises playing ``chasing games as if they had a brain capacity for satire''; sharks spooning away ``solid flesh like warm butter''); and encountering the strange silent panorama that opened up before the eyes of the first human beings to venture freely about the deeps.

ISBN-13

9781590171134

ISBN-10

1590171136

Format

Paperback

Pages

336 pages

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Published On

2004-10-01



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