Books Written By Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson only wrote four books. The fifth, The Sense of Wonder was published
posthumously. All of Carson's books are still in print. You local library will have
copies, and so will many independent bookstores and used book stores.
Amazon.com can supply all these
titles at a discount. Also check used book sites such as ABE.com and
Bookfinder.com. Silent Spring and The Edge of the Sea are available
on audio tape and several titles are available in large print.
The dust jackets shown here are the ones currently in print. Under them are the
original dust jackets for historical interest and collectors. First editions in
good condition and with dust jackets are quite valuable.
Under the Sea-wind
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by Rachel L. Carson
New York, Oxford University Press (1941)
To honor Rachel Carson on the centennial of her birth, Penguin Classics is proud
to publish a centennial edition of Under the Sea-wind, Carson’s first book
and her personal favorite. Featuring a new introduction by Carson’s biographer,
Linda Lear, this edition includes the beautiful line drawings by Howard Frech from
the very first edition (1941). Under the Sea-wind takes you beneath the
waves with the same kind of intimacy and wonder that made the documentaries “Winged
Migration” and “March of the Penguins” such masterpieces of nature-immersion. This
was the book that first established Carson as perhaps our most prescient and influential
observer of the natural world.
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The Sea Around Us
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by Rachel L. Carson
New York, Oxford University Press (1951)
The Sea Around Us is based on post World War II geographical and oceanographic
evidence of the life and work of the sea. It is a study of the processes that formed
the earth, the moon, and the oceans. It won the National Book Award in 1952 and
made Carson an international voice for the public understanding of science.
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The Edge of the Sea
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by Rachel Carson
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company (1955)
The Edge of the Sea is a practical guide to identifying the inhabitants
of the sea which we find in the marshes, tide pools, and shallows that border it
- a world which mirrors the "spectacle of life in all its varied manifestations
as it has appeared, evolved, died out."Carson considers the tide lines of the eastern
sea coast; the rocky shores, the sandy dunes, and the coral reefs.
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This book is available on Kindle.
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Silent Spring
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by Rachel Carson
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company (2002)
This 40th Anniversary Edition of Silent Spring includes a new introduction
by Linda Lear and afterword by E.O. Wilson. See why Carson's analysis is more relevant
now than ever.
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This book is available on Kindle.
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The Sense of Wonder
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by Rachel Carson, photographs by Charles Pratt
The Sense of Wonder, originally written as a 1950's magazine article called
"Help Your Child to Wonder" and photo-illustrated after her death, details Carson's
philosophy that adults need to nurture a child's inborn sense of wonder about the
natural world. The new edition with glorious photographs by Nick Kelsh, printed
in Italy, is the kind of beautiful book Carson imagined might someday be printed.
Linda Lear has written the introduction.
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