The Sea Around Us
Written by Rachel Carson
Narrated by Kaiulani Lee
4.5/5
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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: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One of my favourite books. Famous today as the crusading environmentalist author of 'Silent Spring', Carson's considerable success in her own day was based upon her writings about marine biology; indeed, she has some claim to be the pioneer of modern popular science writing. If, like me, you can't pass a beach without poking around in rock pools then you really ought to read this.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rachel Carson's "The Sea Around Us" gives a beautifully elaborate history of the oceans. The writing is poetic and easy to follow. She describes ocean processes in metaphorical terms that can be applied to other domains of life, like human existence. Therefor, "The Sea Around Us" transcends across many genres.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Carson is so lyrical in her writing. Beauty on the page. When reading The Sea Around Us I could practically smell the salt air, feel the sea rise and fall under my feet. Her words lulled me like the ocean always does. In addition, Carson writes in such a straight forward manner you are never caught up in textbook language. You are never bored. Entertained as you learn. She is not above calling something she doesn't understand just plain "weird." The one drawback? Some of the material is out of date. When Carson describes the diving helmets of the 1950s I wondered what she would think of today's technology. Another mystery of her time was how whales and fur seals could endure the pressure changes in the depths of the ocean. Science has since uncovered that mystery and thensome.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The book will not just make you think about the magnificence and wonder of the sea but the narration will make you feel it!!! So love this audiobook.