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Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997)

Auteur van De zwijgende wereld

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Jacques Cousteau, 1910 - 1997 French marine explorer, writer, and film producer, Cousteau has popularized the undersea world for people of all ages. In 1943, he was partially responsible for the invention of the Aqua-lung, making it possible to extend the duration of underwater swimming. After toon meer World War II, he persuaded the French naval minister to create a marine study center at Toulon. Several years of study dramatized the need for application research, so with a 25-million-franc gift, the ferry Calypso was purchased. Its voyage to the Red Sea resulted in a film that won the Grand Prix at the Paris documentary film festival. It was followed in 1956 by The Silent World, an Oscar winner. Ensuing explorations resulted in over 36 films. The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1967) documented a scientific world cruise from the Red Sea through the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, as far north as Alaska. A 1972 television series filmed the expedition in the Antarctic and along the Chilean coast, and a 1975 archaeological expedition took Cousteau and his team to Greek waters. Cousteau has also written over 15 books, including a 20-volume encyclopedia, The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau. He has produced numerous videotapes and has written a column, "Pulse of the Sea," for the Saturday Review, in addition to numerous articles for National Geographic magazine from 1952 to 1966. In 1974, he founded the Cousteau Society to preserve the oceans. He estimates that in his lifetime he has spent over seven years underwater, and that "during that time I have observed and studied closely, and with my own two eyes I have seen the oceans sicken." (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Jacques-Yves Cousteau

De zwijgende wereld (1953) 596 exemplaren
The Living Sea (1963) 265 exemplaren
Schatten op de zeebodem (1971) 119 exemplaren
Dolfijnen. Vrij en vrijmoedig (1975) 114 exemplaren
Jacques Cousteau, Whales (1986) 102 exemplaren
Jacques Cousteau's Amazon Journey (1983) 65 exemplaren
Atlas of the Oceans (1996) 13 exemplaren
World without sun (1965) 10 exemplaren
La vie au bout du monde (2008) 7 exemplaren
Marine Life of the Caribbean (1984) 6 exemplaren
MARE ULTIMA SPERANZA 2 exemplaren
O Homem, a Orquídea e o Polvo (2008) 2 exemplaren
O MAR, OUTRO MUNDO 2 exemplaren
Silberschiffe (1972) 2 exemplaren
Skattskepp (1979) 2 exemplaren
various books 1 exemplaar
Syvä Meri 1 exemplaar
Oceani 1 exemplaar
O Mar, Outro Mundo 1 exemplaar
Den tause verden 1 exemplaar
Whale (1972) 1 exemplaar
o mar,outro mundo 1 exemplaar
Albatros (1992) 1 exemplaar
Missions pacifiques (1990) 1 exemplaar
Les dauphins (1993) 1 exemplaar
Enciclopedia del mar. Tomo 1. (1993) 1 exemplaar
Enciclopedia del mar. Tomo 2. (1993) 1 exemplaar
Cousteau enciclopedia del mar (1993) 1 exemplaar
Svet tišine 1 exemplaar
El Calypso 1 exemplaar
Rastreando las profundidades (1999) 1 exemplaar
La planète Océan 1 exemplaar
Les dauphins et la liberté. (1975) 1 exemplaar
Delfíni 1 exemplaar
MISSION SUR LE MEKONG (1996) 1 exemplaar
Una sola terra 1990 (1990) 1 exemplaar
Bläckfiskar (1981) 1 exemplaar
Rapture 1 exemplaar
Menfish 1 exemplaar
Haie 1 exemplaar
La mer de Cortez (1988) 1 exemplaar
Τα δελφίνια (1975) 1 exemplaar
Fauna salvaje IV. Aves (1991) 1 exemplaar
Valar (1979) 1 exemplaar
Elava meri 1 exemplaar
Το κυνήγι του… (1971) 1 exemplaar
Ο καρχαρίας : ο… (1970) 1 exemplaar
The Whale 1 exemplaar
Les îles du Pacifique (1990) 1 exemplaar

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An older book about whales. By the famous French explorer who invented the Aqualung and made early documentaries of sea life. He invented the aqualung. This book describes a number of ocean expeditions the author made with his team, in pursuit of whales. His attempts to film whales swimming free in the oceans were among the first ever done- they had to find the whales, get close enough and then stay in range... They had some incredible encounters and learned some things about whales that nobody knew before (although the book feels seriously outdated to this reader). In different parts of the book they find and follow around humpbacks, grey whales, right whales, sperm whales, orcas, dolphins, finback whales and others. They found a way into some secluded lagoons in Baja California where grey whales give birth and raise their young. Made an attempt to save an injured grey whale calf that had beached, the mother nowhere in sight- but it only lived a few days. There’s descriptions of the gear they used, the differences between the whales, what was known about whale physiology and social behavior (not much on this last point, and some of the information given is just wrong).There’s lots about the sounds whales make, especially the humpback songs, and how whales reacted to recordings played back to them. The author surmises that soon mankind will decipher the language of whales- well here we are fifty years later, not yet! The author writes a lot in this book about how profoundly emotional he and the team members felt in the presence of the whales, that they often were observed and scrutinized, and in awe of the animals’ great size and apparent gentleness. Just by the way whales would look closely at them, they felt indicated a high intelligence. And they often related maneuvers the whales made as a group to shake off the trailing boats, which pointed at an obvious plan and collaboration among the pod or school. It’s kind of dismaying that with all the respect and admiration they claimed to feel towards the whales, they would still find it okay to lasso a calf, or try and stand on a wild whale's back. I guess they thought it wouldn’t hurt and took pride in the daring of these antics, and I’m sad that this is what stood out to me upon closing the book, when really there are many interesting passages and firsthand observations that were at the time, stunning revelations about whales. The pictures are somewhat blurred and grainy, but some are quite compelling in spite of that.… (meer)
 
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RCornell | 1 andere bespreking | Oct 19, 2023 |
The 20th C. seminal work published regarding the fora and fauna of the oceans that cover 2/3 of our planet.
 
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162
Ook door
17
Leden
4,002
Populariteit
#6,309
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3.9
Besprekingen
28
ISBNs
255
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