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The Compleat Goggler. The first book on sport diving and spearfishing - The Complete Goggler, by Guy Gilpatric. The first book on recreational diving and spearfishing. The Compleat Goggler, Being the first and only exhaustive treatise on the art of goggle fishing, that most noble and excellent sport perfected and popularised by Guy Gilpatric in the Mediterranean Sea. This is the 1957 Dodd Mead/Skin Diver Magazine reprint of the 1938 classic skin-diving book with updated information on techniques and equipment and a Foreword by James Dugan. Dugan was the American who got Jacques Cousteau his first American exposure and went on to draft The Silent World book for Cousteau. The essential sport/apnea/spearfishing diving library book Contents: The birth of a sport; a feud with a giant fish; Octopus; Goggle types and design; Spears; Swimming and diving; Guns; Fish, Recipes, Breathing tubes, diving apparatus and underwater cameras. Also includes photos of the pioneering diving equipment of Fernez and Le Prieur. This book is already the industry and sport legend, with the rare first edition listing for four figures and good copies of this second edition in the mid to higher three figures. Hardcover in photocopy dust jacket, 182 pages, numerous b&w photos. This copy is in very good condition with photocopy dust jacket in very good condition in a protective sleeve Dimensions: 3 x 6 x 9 in Weight: 2 lb