by Rachel Carson · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780195069976
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«The Sea Around Us, Special Edition» is Rachel Carson's essay on the oceans, published by Oxford Paperbacks in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Rachel Carson combines scientific rigor and poetic prose to explore the oceans: from the formation of the seas and life in their depths to tides and tsunamis. This special edition adds a chapter by Jeffrey Levinton on continental drift, coral reefs and pollution, with a foreword by Ann Zwinger.
Work originally published in 1951; this Special Edition came out in 1991. It won the National Book Award in 1952 and the John Burroughs Medal.
For lovers of the sea and nature, as well as for those seeking a classic of scientific popularization about the oceans.
Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.
