Celebrating the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, Under the Sea-Wind--Rachel Carson's first book and her personal favorite--is the early masterwork of one of America's greatest nature writers. Evoking the special mystery and beauty of the shore and the open sea--its limitless vistas and twilight depths--Carson's astonishingly intimate, unforgettable portrait captures the /5(). · It was the early draft of Undersea, which The Atlantic published and later became Under the Sea-Wind. By , Carson had a full-time position as a biologist at the Bureau of Fisheries. Rachel Carson, Via www.doorway.ru: Annie Chester. Celebrating the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, Under the Sea-Wind—Rachel Carson’s first book and her personal favorite—is the early masterwork of one of America’s greatest nature writers. Evoking the special mystery and beauty of the shore and the open sea—its limitless vistas and twilight depths—Carson’s astonishingly intimate, unforgettable portrait captures Cited by:
Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson () I recently re-read the classic book Under the Sea-Wind by the marine biologist and well-known conservationist Rachel Carson. This superb book is written in a wonderfully lyrical - almost poetic - style, as in this passage introducing the bird Rynchops niger: "With the dusk a strange bird. Under the Sea-Wind marks the beginnings of one of the most significant careers in nature writing. In it Rachel Carson celebrates the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, conjuring the atmosphere of the shore and the open sea and the delicately balanced, fragile struggle for life along the shoreline. From "Under the Sea-Wind," Rachel Carson was a world-renowned marine biologist, author and environmentalist who served as an aquatic biologist and editor-in-chief for the U.S. Fish Wildlife Service. She has been credited with launching the contemporary environmental movement and awakening the concern of Americans for the environment.
It was the early draft of Undersea, which The Atlantic published and later became Under the Sea-Wind. By , Carson had a full-time position as a biologist at the Bureau of Fisheries. Rachel Carson, Via Wikimedia. "Under the Sea Wind" is book 1 of Rachel Carson's "Sea Trilogy" (**) and all three books are considered to be one of the most "Definitive works of American nature writing" to come along in decades. This edition closes with a short biography of Carson complete with archival photos from her life. Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life is the first book written by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson. Her book was published by Simon Schuster in ; it received very good reviews, but sold poorly. After the great success of a sequel The Sea Around Us, it was reissued by Oxford University Press; that edition was an alternate Book-of-the-Month Club selection and became another bestseller, and never gone out of print. It is recognized today as one of the "definitiv.
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