The Sea Trilogy
by Rachel Carson
Buy on AmazonPioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson explores the wonders of the Earth's oceans in these classics of American science and nature writing. Rachel Carson is perhaps most famous as the author of Silent Spring, but she was first and foremost a "poet of the sea" and the three books collected in this deluxe Library of America volume are classics of American science and nature writing. Under the Sea-Wind (1941), Carson's lyrical debut, offers an intimate account of maritime ecology through the eyes of three of the ocean's denizens, the individual lives of sanderling, mackerel, and eel dramatically intertwined in the enduring ebb and flow of the tides.…
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"Her three masterpieces about the water world — Under the Sea-Wind (which began as her groundbreaking essay Undersea ), The Sea Around Us (which occasioned her superb National Book Award acceptance speech ), and The Edge of the Sea (which gave us her exquisite meditation on the ocean and the meaning of life ) — are now collected in a single Library of America volume: Rachel Carson: The Sea Trilogy ( public library ), introduced by Carson’s modern-day counterpart and kindred spirit Sandra Stein…"
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