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Part adventure story, part manifesto, this is legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau's passionate plea for sustaining life on the planet. Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from his childhood with boundless curiosity about the natural world. As the first choice of fascinating, often dangerous expeditions all around the planet, he uncovered firsthand the complexity and beauty of life on the planet and undersea-and watched the toll taken by human activity in the twentieth century.In his magnificent last book, designed for the very first time in the United States, Cousteau describes his deeply informed philosophy about protecting our world for future generations. Weaving gripping stories of his adventures throughout, he and coauthor Susan Schiefelbein address the risks we take with human health, the overfishing and sacking of the world's oceans, the hazards of nuclear proliferation, and environmentally friendly responsibility of scientists, politicians, and people of faith. Written over the last a decade of his life with frequent collaborator Schiefelbein, who also introduces the written text and an update on environmental developments in the decade since Cousteau's death, this prescient, clear-sighted book is a remarkable testament to the life and work of 1 of our greatest modern adventurers.
