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Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson: The Sea Trilogy (LOA #352)

Under the Sea-Wind / The Sea Around Us / The Edge of the Sea

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Pioneering 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 tid… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Steingraber, Sandra
  • ISBN: 978-1-59853-705-5
  • EAN: 9781598537055
  • Produktnummer: 35866441
  • Verlag: Turnaround
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 768 S.
  • Ausstattung: BLK NAV
  • Masse: H13.5 cm x B20.6 cm x D3.3 cm 686 g
  • Gewicht: 686

Über den Autor


Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was born on a family farm near Springdale, Pennsylvania. She earned a master's in zoology at Johns Hopkins before taking a job with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. She published Under the Sea-Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951, winner of the National Book Award), and The Edge of the Sea (1955). Silent Spring (1962), her exposé of the disastrous ecological effects of pesticide use, was an international bestseller.A research biologist and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber was inspired to activism by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, becoming one of America's leading environmental writers and antipollution advocates. Her books include Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment (1997), Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood (2001), and Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis (2011).

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