![]() Under the Sea-Wind, the first in the sequence, was Carson's first published book. Each book achieves that rare feat of popular science: crafting a narrative so deceptively simple as to entice readers in and, once there, enchant them enough to stay as much for the prose as for the delicious morsels of data. Republished this winter as a single tome by the Library of America, Carson's Sea Trilogy is as gratifying to read today as it ever was the science, once cutting-edge, may be long surpassed, but much of it will still be new to the lay reader. Carson first made her name with a trilogy of best-selling books about the sea, published between 19, books in which she exhibited her distinctive synthesis of complex science and lyrical landscape writing so rich and descriptive that it verges, at times, on the spiritual. ![]() ![]() Before Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in 1962-a literary masterpiece and foundation of the modern environmental movement-she was a marine biologist and a prolific writer on the subject of the ocean. ![]()
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