Cousteau, Jacques Yves.
Summary: Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from childhood with boundless curiosity about the natural world. As the leader of fascinating, often dangerous expeditions all over the planet, he discovered firsthand the complexity and beauty of life on earth and undersea--and watched the toll taken by human activity. In his last book, written over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.95 COUCousteau, Jacques Yves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1988
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 599.51 COUCousteau, Jacques Yves.
Summary: Covers all aspects of sea life including evolution, reproduction, foodgetting, communication, attack and defense mechanisms, legends and tales, life in the polar regions and the future of the oceans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abradale Press/Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1985
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 574.92 COUCousteau, Jacques Yves.
Summary: Relates the projects in undersea research to which the former minesweeper Calypso has contributed since 1951 under the captaincy of Jacques Cousteau.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 551.46 COUSummary: Jacques and Philippe Cousteau embark on a 10-month expedition along the entire course of the world's largest river, capturing on film the Nile's astonishing natural beauties, dangers, primitive cultures and animal sanctuaries. Wild hippopotami, the mysteries of the deadly tsetse fly, the ancient Dinka and Shilluk African tribes and the Sudd--a swamp as large as England--are among the natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Collections of 11 episodes from the TV series "Cousteau's rediscovery of the world" and "Cousteau's Papua New Guinea journey." Covers multiple Cousteau Society expeditions throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cousteau Society 2005
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JACSummary: This set includes all 12 episodes from the TV series The Cousteau Odyssey, which covers multiple Cousteau explorations including shipwrecks, mystery islands, the Nile River, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JACCousteau, Jean-Michel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1989
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 919.53 COUSummary: Calypso's search for the Britannic: For 70 years, the sudden sinking of the mighty British ship Britannic, larger than her sister ship Titanic, has been shrouded in mystery. Jacques Cousteau reveals the full story of November 21, 1916 when, on her 6th journey as a hospital ship, Britannic exploded and sank into the Aegean Sea. With recollections of a survivor, then a young nurse, Cousteau and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Lost relics of the sea: Jacques cousteau and the Calypso crew journey across two seas, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, to recover the remains of great ships. Off northern Crete they find skulls, scattered bones and round pellets of grape-shot fired in a 300-year-old battle and at another site, 1st-century Roman jars. Their biggest wreck is uncovered at Martinique. In 1902, 30,000 people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Blind prophets of Easter Island: Since the Polynesian island's discovery in 1722, the lost, ancient civilization of Easter Island has left a baffling legacy of riddles. Jacques Cousteau and the Calypso crew undertake land and underwater explorations and interview leading experts. Among the questions they tackle: who created the ancient, once-revered giant stone figures? Why do volcanic rock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2005