The human, the orchid, and the octopus : exploring and conserving our natural world / Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein.
Record details
- ISBN: 1596914173 (trade bdg.)
- Physical Description: xi, 305 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2007.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-305). |
Citation/References Note: | Library Journal, August 2007 Pub Weekly, August 2007 Booklist, July 2007 Kirkus Review, September 200 |
Target Audience Note: | Adult Follett Library Resources |
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Subject: | Cousteau, Jacques Yves > Biography. Nature conservation. Nature > Effect of human beings on. Oceanographers > France > Biography. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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Burlington Public Library | BIO COUSTEAU 2007 | 39851000866906 | Non-fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |
Jacques Cousteau (1910â1997) was world renowned as an ocean explorer, filmmaker, educator, and environmental activist. He won three Oscars and the Palme d'Or for his films, was nominated for forty Emmys during the run of his TV series The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, and wrote or coauthored more than seventy five books, including The Silent World, which has sold five million copies in twenty two languages. As director of the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco and a member of the advisory committee of the IAEA, he was active in the conservation and anti-nuclear-proliferation movements. Susan Schiefelbein has won the National Magazine Award and the Front Page Award for her cover stories on social issues. A former editor at the Saturday Review, where she first worked with Cousteau, she went on to write the narration for many of his documentary films, including winners of the Peabody and the Ace. She lives in Paris.