Description: Combines poetic and scientific discourse in a description of the sea and its inhabitants.
Brief description: Rachel Carson (1907-1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.
Review Quotes:
"Catching the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry." - Time magazine
"It is a truly extraordinary world which Miss Carson vividly unfolds to us." - The Atlantic
"Miss Caron's pen is as poetic as ever, and the knowledge she imparts is profound." - Christian Science Monitor
"This combination of science and scintillating prose provides fascinating insights into the mysteries of the tides ... a masterpiece of ecological writing" (praise for the Sea Trilogy). - The Guardian