Books Written By Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson only wrote four books. The fifth, The Sense of Wonder was published
posthumously. All of Carson's books are still in print. You local library will have
copies, and so will many independent bookstores and used book stores.
Amazon.com can supply all these
titles at a discount. Also check used book sites such as ABE.com and
Bookfinder.com. Silent Spring and The Edge of the Sea are available
on audio tape and several titles are available in large print.
The dust jackets shown here are the ones currently in print. Under them are the
original dust jackets for historical interest and collectors. First editions in
good condition and with dust jackets are quite valuable. Check such auction sites
as ebay.com to find out current prices.
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Under the Sea-Wind
by Rachel L. Carson
New York, Oxford University Press (1941)
To honor Rachel Carson on the centennial of her birth, Penguin Classics is proud
to publish a centennial edition of Under the Sea-Wind, Carson’s first book and her
personal favorite. Featuring a new introduction by Carson’s biographer, Linda Lear,
and the beautiful line drawings by Howard Frech from the very first edition of the
book (1941), Under the Sea-Wind takes you beneath the waves with the same kind of
intimacy and wonder that made the documentaries Winged Migration and March of the
Penguins such masterpieces of nature-immersion. It is the book that first established
Carson as perhaps our most prescient and influential observer of the natural world.
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The Sea Around Us
by Rachel L. Carson
New York, Oxford University Press (1951)
The Sea Around Us is based on geographical evidence and is a study of the
processes that formed the earth, the moon, and the oceans.
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The Edge of the Sea
by Rachel L. Carson
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company (1955)
The Edge of the Sea is a practical guide to identifying the inhabitants of
the sea and the marshes, tide pools, and shallows that border it - a world which
mirrors the "spectacle of life in all its varied manifestations as it has appeared,
evolved, died out."
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Silent Spring
by Rachel L. Carson
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company (2002)
The new 40th Anniversary Edition of Silent Spring with a new introduction
by Linda Lear and afterword by E.O. Wilson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.
See why Carson's analysis is more relevant than ever.
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The Sense of Wonder
by Rachel Carson, photographs by Charles Pratt
New York, Harper & Row (posthumous, 1965)
The Sense of Wonder, originally written as a 1950's magazine article called
"Help Your Child to Wonder" and photo-illustrated after her death, details Carson's
philosophy that adults need to nurture a child's inborn sense of wonder about the
natural world.
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