In the chapters ahead she uses witness accounts and diary entries of early travellers, explorers and researchers intermingled with scientific knowledge, to take us along in this journey of experiencing the beauty, scale and mystery of the seas. They poured into the waiting ocean basins, or, falling upon the continental masses, drained away to become sea”. They fell continuously, day and night, days passing into months, into years, into centuries. Never have there been such rains since that time. With great poetic beauty she begins by sharing how ‘the young planet Earth acquired an ocean’: : “As soon as the earth’s crust cooled enough, the rains began to fall. In the first section, mother sea, Carson takes on the tremendous task of outlining for the reader the shadowy ‘beginnings of that great mother of life, the sea’. The Sea Around Us is divided into three sections: mother sea the restless sea and finally, man and the sea about him. Together they came to be known as the sea trilogy and explore the whole of ocean life from the shores to the depths.
Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us was written in 1951 and won Carson a U.S.
Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s.
Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring (1962) and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
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