by Brad Matsen
BRAD MATSEN
Vashon Island, Washington
February 2009
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brad Matsen has been writing about the sea and its inhabitants for forty years. He is the author of Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2006; Titanic’s Last Secrets; Planet Ocean: A Story of Life, the Sea, and Dancing to the Fossil Record; the award-winning Incredible Ocean Adventure series for children; and many other books. He was a creative producer for the Shape of Life, an eight-hour National Geographic television series on evolutionary biology, and has written on marine science and the environment for Mother Jones, Audubon, Natural History, and many other magazines. He lives on Vashon Island in Puget Sound.
Copyright © 2009 by Bradford Matsen
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Matsen, Bradford
Jacques Cousteau : the sea king / Brad Matsen.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-37827-9
1. Cousteau, Jacques Yves. 2. Oceanographers—
France—Biography. I. Title.
GC30.C68M38 2009 551.46092—DC22 [B] 2009011640
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