The Silent World.

COUSTEAU, Jacques Yves with Frederic Dumas.

Item Number: 135619

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1953.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jacques Cousteau on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

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.