Under the Sea-wind
Book Details
| Title: | Under the Sea-wind | ||||||||
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| Published: | 1941 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| Tags: | biology, non-fiction, science, environment | ||||||||
| Description: | Rachel Carson's first book, Under the Sea-wind, is a portrait of the birds and fishes that inhabit the eastern rim of the N. American continent. In a series of descriptive narratives she unfolds the life of the shore, the open sea, and the sea bottom.
Carson begins in Book One with the spring twilight along the North Carolina coast where the night-sounds of the water are the only intrusion on the stillness. In Book Two the life of the open sea is depicted in the life cycle of Scomber, the mackerel. Book Three encompasses the life of Anguilla, the eel, whose habitations include the gently sloping sea-bottom that forms the rim of the continents, the steep descent of the continental slopes, and finally the abyss itself. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 2,182 | ||||||||
| Pages: | 135  |
Author Bio for Carson, Rachel
Rachel Carson, writer, scientist, and ecologist, grew up simply in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.
She was hired by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries to write radio scripts during the Depression and supplemented her income writing feature articles on natural history for the Baltimore Sun. She began a fifteen-year career in the federal service as a scientist and editor in 1936 and rose to become Editor-in-Chief of all publications for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. ...
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