The book for 
everyone who cores about 
planet Earth's survival 
It’s an almanac • statistical reference • fascinating history • blue- 
print for concerned citizens • atlas of natural wonders • picture 
book of mankind • solar energy handbook • conservation quizbook 
• world tour of environmental “hot spots” • ecological economics 
survey • a new perspective on our planet’s future — and much, 
much more... 
Jacques Cousteau and the Cous- 
teau Society have created a unique 
almanac of ecological facts, figures 
and issues— a book that offers, in 
one volume, information, entertain- 
ment. and a serious call to arms for 
everyone who asks, “What can I 
do to help?” 
864 pages long, and with over 
300 photographs, illustrations and 
maps, in an oversized format. The 
Cousteau Almanac surveys our 
entire living planet to reveal the 
often “hushed up,” behind-the- 
scenes stories of environmental 
crises. But it also previews promis- 
ing solutions to these ecological 
problems. And it provides a fasci- 
nating compendium of vital statis- 
tics about everything under the 
sun, moon, and rain. You’ll discover 
for example: 
• The biological causes of inflation 
• The ironic tale of New York’s 
almost-solar skyscraper 
• The typical consumption of a 
United States citizen (14 pounds 
of cotton, 187 pounds of meat, 
195 packs of cigarettes, 650 
pounds of paper and 1.359 
pounds of steel per year) 
• The “roots” of common man- 
made items — including paper 
clips, blue jeans, gasoline, and the 
Big Mac hamburger 
• How to build a better automobile 
and bicycle 
• Things you didn’t know you were 
eating 
• How to engineer a famine 
• How to make a cow — a recipe 
that starts with one 80-pound calf, 
requires more than two years of 
preparation, and could otherwise 
feed a thousand people 
• The price of war (During World 
War II, it cost the U.S. an average 
of $225,000 to kill each enemy 
soldier) 
• The advertisements that saved a 
canyon 
• Animals you’ll never see (plus 
eight endangered species that 
appear as official symbols of their 
native lands) 
• Large things we’ve got to save — 
including the Amazon rain forest, 
whales, and the ozone layer 
An unconventional almanac 
for uncommon times 
“The Cousteau Almanac is must 
reading for all those committed 
to the successful continuance of 
humankind in the Universe,” writes 
R. Buckminster Fuller. 
Publishers Weekly calls it “an 
extremely readable, educational 
book... filled with lore, history, sta- 
tistics, warnings, suggestions and 
profiles of influential individuals. 
...The contributors touch upon just 
about every imaginable ecological 
trend.” 
Send for your copy now. If you 
don’t agree that this is a book you 
must have, return your copy within 
two weeks for a full, prompt refund. 
THE 
COUSTEAU 
ALMANAC 
AN INVENTORY OF LIFE 
ON OUR WATER PLANET 
Jacques -Yves 
Cousteau 
AND THE STAFF OF 
THE COUSTEAU SOCIETY 
DID YOU KNOW THAT... 
... a top tourist mecca — the Caribbean — is also the most 
pesticide-damaged area of the world ocean? 
... “acid rain,” which has killed the fish in 90% of Amer- 
ica’s northeastern mountain lakes, is now quietly 
destroying the Acropolis and many of Europe’s great- 
est cathedrals? 
... there are more insects in one square mile of rural land 
than human beings on the entire earth? 
See why Pete Seeger says: “It’s much more than a book of 
dry facts. Every school in the world should have a copy!” 
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