Linda Lear - Introduction to "Undersea" by Rachel Carson.

Author: Rachel Carson
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics; New edition (April 3, 2007)
Originally Published: 1941
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143104969
ISBN-13: 978-0143104964

Selected Works

Biography

Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature.

A definitive portrait of the woman who redefined the way humans look at their place in nature.

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

The first adult biography of the 20th century's most beloved children's writer and illustrator.

Natural History

Introduction to "Undersea" by Rachel Carson.

Handbound limited folio edition by Nakawan Press.

Introduction to Under the Sea-Wind, by Rachel Carson. Penguin US.

Under the Sea-Wind was Carson's first and personal favorite book.

Non-Fiction

Introduction to the 40th anniversary edition of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.

Essay on the meaning and importance of Silent Spring forty years later.

Introduction to The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson

Carson's masterpiece describing the need to develop each individual's sense of wonder

Anthology

Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

An anthology of Rachel Carson’s little-known and unpublished writing - set into the context of her life.

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www.rachelcarson.org

Perhaps the finest nature writer of the Twentieth Century, Rachel Carson (1907-1964) is remembered more today as the woman who challenged the notion that humans could obtain mastery over nature by chemicals, bombs and space travel than for her studies of ocean life.

www.bpotter.com

Beatrix Potter, the twentieth century's most beloved children's writer and illustrator, created books that will forever conjure nature for millions.

Biographers International Organization

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Authors Guild

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Introduction to "Undersea" by Rachel Carson.

Carson's first published essay from "The Atlantic Monthly" in 1937 reprinted here with water-color drawings and and afterword by naturalist and nature write Julia Whitty.