The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson

Not the first and still not the last Rachel Carson we’ll share here. Today’s page is from The Sea Around Us where Carson moves us through the four seasons of the sea, shining light on the ways the water comes to life as the world warms (even if, as we enter spring, there remains a certain sense of dormancy to life).

The second book in what is considered Rachel Carson’s sea trilogy, The Sea Around Us won both the 1952 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a Burroughs Medal in nature writing, sitting on the New York Times Best Seller List for 86 weeks.

Rachel Carson was a writer and marine biology, graduating from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) in 1929 and going on to study at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. She received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.