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. Publication date 1998 Topics Seashore biology Publisher Boston, Mass. Rachel Carson (1907–1964) was an American marine biologist. The third volume in Rachel Carsons classic and New York Times bestselling Sea trilogy, about the delicate beauty of the shoreline, introduced by Margaret Atwood. The edge of the sea by Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 Hubbell, Sue. 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 /rebates/2fbook-search2ftitle2fthe-edge-of-the-sea2fauthor2frachel-carson2f&. “It is a truly extraordinary world which Miss Carson vividly unfolds to us. With all the hallmarks of Rachel Carsons luminous prose combined with a scientifically accurate exploration of the Atlantic seashore comes a. In this book, she explores rocky shores, sandy beaches, and coral reefs, leading us into unknown worlds to catch the evanescent beauty of a tide pool and tell the story of a grain of sand, and conveys the true complexity, beauty, and wonder of marine life, both animals and plants. Known for “catching the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry,” nature writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson is an icon of environmentalism, and her first love was the sea (Time).
Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Signed by Rachel Carson on the half-title page. First edition of Carson’s classic work, which explores marine life that takes us into “a truly extraordinary world” (The Atlantic Monthly).
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