| Stock
No |
2914 |
| Artist
/ Author / Creator |
COUSTEAU, Jacques-Yves |
| Category |
Books |
| Country
Published |
U.K. |
| Date
Published |
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| Description |
The Scientific Book Club ED. 148pp. 7 b/w plates. good cond, spine & top of front cvr slightly faded, previous owners lib stamp inside front cvr. The author gives a full account of how he developed the aqualung. He then tells how with Frederic Dumas & Phillippe Tailliez they founded the French Navy’s Undersea Research Group in 1945. Their exploits include searching for the submerged ruins of ancient Carthage, salvaging Greek and Phoenician remains from Mediterranean wrecks, swimming through forests of precipitous coral and taking part in the Piccard bathyscaphe expedition to the Gulf of Guinea. The author takes you down to the floor of the ocean, introducing you to countless varieties of fish and their idiosyncrasies. |
| Price |
£1.75 |
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All photographs are of the actual book for sale and are not a generic photo. All dust jackets are original, not laser copies.
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