![]() ![]() ![]() Her books have been credited with advancing the global environmental movement. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sea trilogy: The Sea Around Us (winner of the National Book Award and the John Burroughs Medal), Under the Sea-Wind and The Edge of the Sea as well as the seminal Silent Spring. Under the Sea-Wind (1941), Carsons lyrical debut, offers an intimate account of maritime ecology through the eyes of three of the oceans denizens, the. Rachel Carson (1907–1964) was an American marine biologist. The Edge of the Sea, like all her writing, sounds a prophetic alarm for the damage mankind is doing to the natural world, but also offers us inspiration: here is beauty, here is something worth saving. ![]() From these, and other, encounters she offers us not just a scientifically accurate study of the ecology of the seashore, but also a hauntingly beautiful account of the fragile balance of life found at the edge of the sea. From the National Book Awardwinning author of Silent Spring: An exploration of marine life that takes us into a truly extraordinary world (The Atlantic. She explores a tide pool, an inaccessible cave, and watches a lone crab on the shore at midnight. In The Edge of the Sea Rachel Carson introduces us to the ‘strange and beautiful place’ where the sea meets the land. ![]() The third volume in Rachel Carson’s classic and New York Times bestselling Sea trilogy, about the delicate beauty of the shoreline, introduced by Margaret Atwood ![]()
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