In every legend, there is a legacy. In the life and career of undersea<br>explorer Jacques Cousteau, that legacy beats in the heart of the sea and in<br>the heart of his son, Jean-Michel, the noted French environmentalist,<br>educator and documentary film producer who has spent most of his adult life<br>nurturing the work of his famous father.<br><br>In <i>My Father, The Captain,</i> Jean-Michel Cousteau takes an open and intimate look at the life he shared with his father, and the legend he has taken it<br>upon himself to carry. In so doing, he hopes to shed new and meaningful<br>light on the life and work of a man who inspired millions to reconsider our<br>relationship with the sea and its creatures-and, in the process, to<br>understand a little more about himself and his family as well.<br><br>&quot;Captain Cousteau was a complicated man,&quot; the younger Cousteau writes. &quot;He<br>was a man of many different personalities, many different moods. But this<br>is how it is with all great men, yes? We know the public mask, but it is<br>the private face that reveals a man's true character. It is the man we<br>know when the cameras are not filming.&quot;<br><br><i>My Father, The Captain</i> is shot-through with new material and fresh insights<br>into the life and mind of a man who helped to jump-start a global<br>conservation effort that continues to flourish. Jean-Michel Cousteau and<br>his collaborator, New York Times best-selling author Daniel Paisner, offer<br>an intimate reappraisal of the many touchstone moments Jean-Michel shared<br>with his father, as well as the seminal moments from his father's life that<br>have become part of the Cousteau family lore and legend.