Under the Sea Wind
Title | Under the Sea Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Carson |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2011-03-29 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1453214739 |
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.
The Sea Around Us
Title | The Sea Around Us PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Carson |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2011-03-29 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1453214763 |
National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller: Explore earth’s most precious, mysterious resource—the ocean—with the author of Silent Spring. With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us became a cultural phenomenon when first published in 1951 and cemented Carson’s status as the preeminent natural history writer of her time. Her inspiring, intimate writing plumbs the depths of an enigmatic world—a place of hidden lands, islands newly risen from the earth’s crust, fish that pour through the water, and the unyielding, epic battle for survival. Firmly based in the scientific discoveries of the time, The Sea Around Us masterfully presents Carson’s commitment to a healthy planet and a fully realized sense of wonder. 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.
The Book of the Ocean, and Life on the Sea
Title | The Book of the Ocean, and Life on the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1859 |
Genre | Seafaring life |
ISBN |
Books of the Sea
Title | Books of the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Lee Lewis |
Publisher | Greenwood |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
The Book of the Ocean, and Life on the Sea
Title | The Book of the Ocean, and Life on the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 688 |
Release | 1857 |
Genre | Seafaring life |
ISBN |
The Sea for Sam
Title | The Sea for Sam PDF eBook |
Author | William Maxwell Reed |
Publisher | |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Marine animals |
ISBN |
The Boundless Sea
Title | The Boundless Sea PDF eBook |
Author | David Abulafia |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 1115 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Navigation |
ISBN | 0199934983 |
"David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans-the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian-which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed, evolving from local exploration to lines of regional communication and commerce and eventually to major arteries. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and of course people-free and enslaved-across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas"--