The Silent World.

COUSTEAU, Jacques Yves with Frederic Dumas.

Item Number: 139883

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1953.

First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition.

Before becoming the man who introduced us to the wonders of the sea through his beloved television series, Jacques Cousteau was better known as an engineer and the inventor of scuba. He chronicled his early days of underwater adventure in The Silent World—a memoir that was an instant, international bestseller upon its publication in 1953.