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Captain Cousteau's underwater treasury /

The author of The Silent World, the world's most foremost living underwater pioneer, presents the greatest stories of undersea adventure and discovery in war and peace.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cousteau, Jacques, 1910-1997 (Editor), Dugan, James, 1912-1967 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper and Brothers, [1959]
Edition:[1st ed.].
Subjects:
Deep diving.
Diving
Plongée sous-marine.
Deep diving
Table of Contents:
  • Beyond the gray-green barrier / Alister C. Hardy
  • The compleat goggler / Guy Gipatric
  • The bishop's cross / Robert I. Nesmith
  • A man in the Atlantic / Wolfgang Frank
  • Life at high pressure / J.B.S. Haldane
  • The fountain of Vaucluse/ Phillipe Tailliez
  • The story of Michels / Tom Eadie
  • From a novelist's diving log / James Aldridge
  • Submarine disaster . Edward Young
  • The world below the brine / Walt Whitman
  • Driving with and without armor / J.B. Green
  • I found undersea insects / Noel Monkman
  • Up from the well of time / Luis Marden
  • The first underwater photographs / Louis Boutan
  • California gold divers / Richard Anderson
  • The oldest statues in the world / Norbert Casteret
  • Laurentic gold / James Dugan
  • Beyond the reefs / William Travis
  • Mr. Jefferson hears about the first submarine attack / David Bushnell
  • Supplying Guadalcanal / Mochitsura Hashimoto
  • Cadavers / John S. Potter Jr.
  • Sharks of Raraka / Wilmon Menard
  • Submarine through the North Pole / William G. Lalor Jr.
  • Listening for fish / Raymond Firth
  • The coral coast / Rachel Carson
  • A dive in Wick Bay / Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Art salvaged from the sea / George Karo
  • Trapped! / Sydney Hart
  • An octopus in Borneo / Victor Berge
  • Coral reefs / Charles Darwin
  • Jewels of the deep / James H.D. Belgrave
  • Wahoo / Edward L. Beach
  • The undersea gods / "Gorgonian"
  • Surrounded by piranhas / E.R. Fenimore Johnson
  • Coral magic / Hans Hass
  • The secret admiralty circular
  • The wreck of the Vasa / Ruth Lonergan
  • Top secret dive / Peter Keeble
  • Animal life of the deep sea bottom / A.F. Bruun
  • Raising the Leonardo da Vinci / David Masters
  • The consular agent / J. Valerio Borghese
  • Shark / Alexandre Dumas
  • Exploration of the sunken liner Andrea Doria / Ramsey Parks
  • Advantages of a submarine vessel / John Wilkins
  • Beneath a jungle stream / Arthur C. Clarke
  • Midget attack on a Japanese cruiser / Ian Fraser
  • Breakthrough in the Thames Tunnel / Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  • A descent into perpetual night / William Beebe
  • The Bufferini treasure / Guido Garibaldi
  • The best spearfisherman in the world / Eugenie Clark
  • The cycle of water / P.H. Kuenen
  • Underwater duck hunt / Jon M. Lindbergh
  • The Wakulla cave / Stanley J. Olsen
  • The Accra pipeline / Harry Grossett
  • Shark close-ups / J.Y. Cousteau with Frederic Dumas
  • Diving in the polar seas / Francis D. Fane
  • The phantoms of the Gubbet . Folco Quilici
  • Twenty thousand leagues under the sea / Jules Verne
  • Two and a half miles down / George S. Houot.