Panther Edition 1965. New Canongate edition published with foreword by Margaret Atwood.
The Edge of the Sea portrays an aspect of immemorial ocean which is familiar to most of us: the seashore. Rachel Carson evokes the beaches of earth on a scale that stretches from their incredibly distant, convulsive beginnings to the vivid present; the beaches of these islands, of the Caribbean, of the Southern Seas. She shows us, through a scientist’s eye and in a writer’s prose, that this world of diurnal flux, the sea’s edge, is an arena wherein myriad creatures wage a continual, desperate, cruel, unthinking fight to survive.
Reading The Edge of the Sea we do not feel that we are in the presence of a great marine biologist or we do not feel that we are being taught. We feel that we are exploring, hand in hand, a world as fresh to her as it is to us. Brian Vesey-FitzGerald
Panther Edition 1965. New Canongate edition published with foreword by Margaret Atwood.
The Edge of the Sea portrays an aspect of immemorial ocean which is familiar to most of us: the seashore. Rachel Carson evokes the beaches of earth on a scale that stretches from their incredibly distant, convulsive beginnings to the vivid present; the beaches of these islands, of the Caribbean, of the Southern Seas. She shows us, through a scientist’s eye and in a writer’s prose, that this world of diurnal flux, the sea’s edge, is an arena wherein myriad creatures wage a continual, desperate, cruel, unthinking fight to survive.
Reading The Edge of the Sea we do not feel that we are in the presence of a great marine biologist or we do not feel that we are being taught. We feel that we are exploring, hand in hand, a world as fresh to her as it is to us. Brian Vesey-FitzGerald
