商品簡介
This is the best sea story ever: the saga of being the first son of the legendary ocean explorer, Jacques Cousteau—a boy thrust into history-making adventures in the unknown depths of the sea, and, while discovering the nature of the world, finding the human side of his father, deep respect for his mother, and a place in the world for himself.-Sylvia A. Earle, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and author of The World Is Blue
My father, the great Jacques-Yves Cousteau...Such a gift he has given to me! Such an inheritance!...I notice an unusual opening in the kelp. All around there is this dense and marvelous kelp forest, which appears to collect around a silky, sandy bottom. The way it appears before me, at just that moment, is almost otherworldly. The sun's rays are shining brightly through the kelp, lighting up this little, inexplicable patch of sand—like a spotlight on an empty stage. All around me there are tiny garibaldi, brightly colored damselfish native to the area. In normal light, they're a fantastic, shimmering orange, but here, in this bright sunlight, they are like festive candles, a string of party decorations announcing some underwater fiesta.
What can I do but follow these playful, carrot-colored fish to the sandy bottom? What can I do but give myself over to their sweet allure? I drop to my knees and fall on the spot and I am overcome with emotion. It is almost mystical. I have been thinking of my father, of course, and now it feels as if he is here with me, on this sun-splashed ocean floor.
For the first time since his death, he is near.—FROM THE INTRODUCTION
作者簡介
JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU is the founder and president of the Ocean Futures Society (www.oceanfutures.org). He is the recipient of many awards, including Emmys, a Peabody, a 7 d'Or, and the Cable ACE Award, and has produced more than 80 films. Cousteau is the executive producer of the PBS television series Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures.
DANIEL PAISNER is one of the busiest collaborators in publishing, serving as co-author of many New York Times bestsellers including Denzel Washington's A Hand to Guide Me, Whoopi Gold-berg's Book, and FDNY Battalion Commander Richard Picciotto's September 11 memoir, Last Man Down.
