{"product_id":"my-father-the-captain-isbn-9781426206832","title":"My Father, the Captain","description":"In every legend, there is a legacy. In the life and career of undersea\u003cbr\u003eexplorer Jacques Cousteau, that legacy beats in the heart of the sea and in\u003cbr\u003ethe heart of his son, Jean-Michel, the noted French environmentalist,\u003cbr\u003eeducator and documentary film producer who has spent most of his adult life\u003cbr\u003enurturing the work of his famous father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMy Father, The Captain,\u003c\/i\u003e Jean-Michel Cousteau takes an open and intimate look at the life he shared with his father, and the legend he has taken it\u003cbr\u003eupon himself to carry. In so doing, he hopes to shed new and meaningful\u003cbr\u003elight on the life and work of a man who inspired millions to reconsider our\u003cbr\u003erelationship with the sea and its creatures-and, in the process, to\u003cbr\u003eunderstand a little more about himself and his family as well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Captain Cousteau was a complicated man,\" the younger Cousteau writes.  \"He\u003cbr\u003ewas a man of many different personalities, many different moods.  But this\u003cbr\u003eis how it is with all great men, yes?  We know the public mask, but it is\u003cbr\u003ethe private face that reveals a man's true character.  It is the man we\u003cbr\u003eknow when the cameras are not filming.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Father, The Captain\u003c\/i\u003e is shot-through with new material and fresh insights\u003cbr\u003einto the life and mind of a man who helped to jump-start a global\u003cbr\u003econservation effort that continues to flourish.  Jean-Michel Cousteau and\u003cbr\u003ehis collaborator, New York Times best-selling author Daniel Paisner, offer\u003cbr\u003ean intimate reappraisal of the many touchstone moments Jean-Michel shared\u003cbr\u003ewith his father, as well as the seminal moments from his father's life that\u003cbr\u003ehave become part of the Cousteau family lore and legend.“It's an intimate look at the man who first brought marine life into the living rooms of millions of Americans in the 1960s, and who fought tirelessly to open the eyes of the world to the oceans' dwindling natural resources.” –\u003ci\u003eExpress\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Jean-Michel [Cousteau] has just published a new book, \"My Father, the Captain,\" about both the public life and private side of his famous father.” –\u003ci\u003ePBS NewsHour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Michel Cousteau\u003c\/b\u003e is the president of the high-profile Ocean Futures Society. He has made more than 80 films and has won an Emmy, a Peabody, a 7 d'Or, and a Cable Ace Award. Cousteau is the executive producer of the acclaimed PBS TV series \u003ci\u003eJean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of \u003ci\u003eMy Father, the Captain: My Life with Jacques Cousteau\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Paisner\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author\/coauthor of more than 60 books, including Denzel Washington's \u003ci\u003eA Hand to Guide Me\u003c\/i\u003e, Missy Franklin’s \u003ci\u003eRelentless Spirit: The Unconventional Raising of a Champion\u003c\/i\u003e, and Daymond John’s \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Broke:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage\u003c\/i\u003e. To learn more, visit danielpaisner.com or follow @DanielPaisner on Twitter.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eMy Father, The Captain\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Book Excerpt\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In the spring of 1950, Jacques-Yves Cousteau had a vision. Or, at least, he liked to recall that he had a vision, but it’s possible that what became a vision in the retelling was in reality a chance encounter. Either way, he’d found his ship. In the first version of the story, the magical version that suggests that the \u003ci\u003eCalypso \u003c\/i\u003eappeared before him like something out of a storybook, Dad was out for a stroll in the harbor village of La Valette-du-Var, on the island of Malta. La Valette is a charming village that even today feels old and new all at once, rich with history and at the same time utterly contemporary and altogether vibrant, although in 1950, the large naval ships in the port were a bleak reminder that the island was still under British rule. In this very harbor, my father took to saying that the \u003ci\u003eCalypso \u003c\/i\u003eappeared before him for the first time. He fell immediately under her spell. He described the ship to his collaborator Yves Paccalet in the following terms: “With her half-white, half-black wooden planking, anchored among the fishing boats and battleships, she enchanted me immediately. I want her. I shall have her. I read her name on the hull: \u003ci\u003eCalypso C. \u003c\/i\u003eAt that moment, I realized that I will command her and that I will sail her to the end of the world. . . .”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It is a romantic vision, yes? And yet there is another account that seems far more reliable. I heard my father tell this complementary version many times as well and came to suspect that the truth rested in the balance of these two stories. In the second version, my father was visiting Auron, a ski resort in the south of France, and he was at dinner with friends, talking about his dream of exploring the world’s oceans. He expressed his frustration with \u003ci\u003eL’Elie Monnier \u003c\/i\u003eand told of the difficulties he was having requisitioning a more suitable vessel from the French Navy. JYC was a wonderful dreamer, a wonderful storyteller, a wonderful dinner companion—and from the accounts of those present, he was his usual effervescent self on this night. When my father stood to leave, he was approached by a gentleman who had been seated at the next table. The man appeared to have been caught in the swirl of my father’s enthusiasm. He said, “Forgive me, but I overheard your conversation. I might be in a position to offer you a vessel to help you achieve your dream.”","brand":"National Geographic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301984194789,"sku":"NP9781426206832","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/my-father-the-captain-isbn-9781426206832","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}