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Under the Sea Wind
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This New York Times bestseller by the author of the environmental classic Silent Spring beautifully details the coastal ecosystem of birds and the sea.
In her first book, preeminent nature writer Rachel Carson tells the story of the sea creatures and birds that dwell in and around the waters along North America’s eastern coast—and the delicately balanced ecosystem that sustains them. Following the life cycles of a pair of sanderlings, a mackerel, and an eel, Carson gracefully weaves scientific observation with imaginative prose to educate and inspire, creating one of the finest wildlife narratives in American literature. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rachel Carson including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
In her first book, preeminent nature writer Rachel Carson tells the story of the sea creatures and birds that dwell in and around the waters along North America’s eastern coast—and the delicately balanced ecosystem that sustains them. Following the life cycles of a pair of sanderlings, a mackerel, and an eel, Carson gracefully weaves scientific observation with imaginative prose to educate and inspire, creating one of the finest wildlife narratives in American literature. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rachel Carson including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
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Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson (1907–1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Suberb! Accurate and poetic - one of my favorites
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The book is divided into three sections: The Edge of the Sea, The Gull's Way, and River and Sea. Each section focused primarily on one animal and followed it through a generation life cycle, including migrations; each section also focused primarily on one of the three great breeding grounds of the northeastern seaboard of the US: Cape Cod, Long Island Sound and the Chesapeake. In all of the sections, Carson told the story of the lives of the food chain in those areas. She personalized her "lead characters" a little but not too much.One of the things I was aware of as I read the book is that Carson wrote before we had begun to seriously lose our sea-based populations. She described some exploitive and wasteful fishing techniques but the world she described was still full of lives and unpolluted.I learned a lot, I valued the read, I would be willing to read the book again. I was not, however, blown away by the writing. I rated the book 3.5 stars.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was an excellent way of transferring knowledge and insight of the sea and is marvellous aquatic life by a clearly talented individual.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dieses ansprechende Buch von Rachel Carson ist außergewöhnlich, da es sich um eine Erzählung mit naturwissenschaftlichem Hintergrund handelt. Rachel Carson hat ihr umfangreiches Wissen über das Meer und seine Bewohner in einen erzählerischen Rahmen gestellt, was der Lektüre ihren besonderen Reiz gibt: Eine Geschichte liest man gemeinhin lieber als eine wissenschaftliche Abhandlung. Offensichtlich war genau dies die Absicht Rachel Carsons: Ein allgemein verständliches und gut lesbares Buch zu schreiben, das sowohl der Unterhaltung als auch der Wissensvermittlung dient. Dies ist ihr hervorragend gelungen. Der Leser geht mit dem Sanderling „Silverbar“, einem Seevogel, mit der Makrele „Scomber“ und mit dem Aal „Anguilla“ auf die Reise und erlebt deren Schicksale hautnah mit. Dabei fällt neben Rachel Carsons Sachkunde ihr außerordentliches Einfühlungsvermögen für die tierischen Protagonisten auf. Die Sensibilität, mit der sie die marinen Lebewesen beschreibt, ist anrührend und alles andere als selbstverständlich in einer Welt, in der Tiere als primitive Lebensformen angesehen werden und vorrangig der menschlichen Ernährung zu dienen haben. Von Rachel Carson, der Autorin des berühmten Buches „Der stumme Frühling“, wollte ich unbedingt mehr lesen. Da ich keine deutsche Ausgabe finden konnte, musste ich „Under the Sea-Wind“ in Englisch lesen. Dadurch sind mir höchstwahrscheinlich einige Feinheiten des Textes entgangen. Die außergewöhnliche Schönheit und Poesie von Rachel Carsons Buch ist jedoch auch mir, der Englisch-nicht-Muttersprachlerin, aufgefallen. Rachel Carson hat „Under the Sea-Wind“ im Jahr 1941 veröffentlicht. Schon damals zeichneten sich Überfischung und andere folgenreiche Eingriffe des Menschen in die marine Umwelt deutlich ab. Man will sich gar nicht ausmalen, was die Autorin zur Verschmutzung der Meere in der heutigen Zeit sagen würde. Vermutlich wäre sie erschüttert. Wie gut, dass sie nicht mehr miterleben muss, was wir aus ihrer so innig geliebten Meereswelt gemacht haben.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Oh, what a nice little book. Another perfect one for reading on a deck looking out over the ocean, so I was very glad that I saved it up for such an occasion.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rachel Carson writing before Silent Spring. No intimation yet of environmental disaster. The words “sea wind” are Carson’s shorthand for the encapsulation of all life within a single system. The sea is vast, as is aquatic life. Carson’s prose is lyrical yet precise (as Peter Matthiessen comments, setting the standard for all nature writers to follow). Two words come particularly to mind: meal and migration. From diatom, copepod and algae to whale, shore bird and eel, life is moving and eating. Humans, living along the perimeter of such abundance, haul in their nets, sometimes full and sometimes empty (the fish escape). In the larger scheme of things here, humans function as just one more set of mouths, one more life form eating other life forms. They aren’t yet the ones who poison the air & water and deplete the fisheries, or, at least, they aren't yet acknowledged as such despoilers.
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