{"product_id":"rachel-carson-the-sea-trilogy-loa-352","title":"Rachel Carson: The Sea Trilogy (LOA #352) - Under the Sea-Wind \/ The Sea Around Us \/ The Edge of the Sea","description":"\u003cb\u003ePioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson explores the wonders of the Earth's oceans in these classics of American science and nature writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes meticulously restored drawings from the original editions, including the nearly 200 illustrations by Bob Hines for \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel Carson is perhaps most famous as the author of \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnder the Sea-Wind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (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 tides. \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sea Around Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1951)--a winner of the National Book Award--draws on a wealth of oceanographic, meteorological, biological, and historical research to present its subject on a grand, biospheric scale, revealing not only many mysteries of the still-unfathomed depths, but a reverence for the sea as a source of global climate and of life itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConcluding Carson's \"sea trilogy,\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Edge of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(1955) explores the habits of the many small creatures that live on shorelines and in tidepools accessible to any beachcomber: part identification guide, part hymn to ecological complexity, it is a book that conveys the \"sense of wonder\" in nature for which Carson is justly celebrated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a moment when overfishing, pollution, and global warming are causing catastrophic changes to marine environments worldwide, Carson's lyrically detailed accounts of these environments offer a timely reminder of their beauty, fragility, and immense consequence for human life.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50952016068896,"sku":"9781598537055","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/rachel-carson-the-sea-trilogy-loa-352","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}