UNDER THE SEA-WIND A Naturalist's Picture Of Ocean Life RACHEL L CARSON Illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe STAPLES PRESS, LONDON 1952 22 x 14 cm. 239 pp + 2 plates. HB/DJ 1st British edition. Originally published in the USA in 1941 and largely ignored, reissued in the UK after the success of her second book The Sea Around Us. RACHEL CARSON whom the New York Times has described as a 'physical scientist with a literary genius', has written the epic story of the war which began with the birth of things, the war which will never know an armistice, the ceaseless war of nature in which millions upon millions die each day in the great struggle for survival. The real hero of Under the Sea- Wind is life itself. Life is the prize reserved for the swift of wing, the strong of tooth, the ready of claw, the wary and the armed. The creatures who play out this unending struggle inhabit the sheltered marshlands of the coast, the open sea and the steep descent from the continental slopes to the deep abyss. In her disciplined, evocative prose Rachel Carson records the skirmishes and the battles that are fought along the shore, in the endless sky above and the endless sea below. Here is the story of the fierce-eyed jaeger, scourge of all the tundra; of the great armadas of golden plover beating their way over northern seas to the warmth of South America; of the ancient, mysterious migration that takes the eels from the rivers to the coastal waters, thence to the great abyss of their forebears, there to spawn and then to die.

UNDER THE SEA-WIND
A Naturalist's Picture Of Ocean Life

RACHEL L. CARSON

Illustrated by
C. F. Tunnicliffe

STAPLES PRESS, LONDON
1952

First British edition. Originally published in the USA in 1941 and largely ignored, reissued in the UK after the success of her second book The Sea Around Us.

RACHEL CARSON whom the New York Times has described as a 'physical scientist with a literary genius', has written the epic story of the war which began with the birth of things, the war which will never know an armistice, the ceaseless war of nature in which millions upon millions die each day in the great struggle for survival.

The real hero of Under the Sea- Wind is life itself. Life is the prize reserved for the swift of wing, the strong of tooth, the ready of claw, the wary and the armed. The creatures who play out this unending struggle inhabit the sheltered marshlands of the coast, the open sea and the steep descent from the continental slopes to the deep abyss.

In her disciplined, evocative prose Rachel Carson records the skirmishes and the battles that are fought along the shore, in the endless sky above and the endless sea below. Here is the story of the fierce-eyed jaeger, scourge of all the tundra; of the great armadas of golden plover beating their way over northern seas to the warmth of South America; of the ancient, mysterious migration that takes the eels from the rivers to the coastal waters, thence to the great abyss of their forebears, there to spawn and then to die.

22 x 14 cm. 239 pp + 2 plates.

Very good condition. Dust jacket chipped and worn along the edges (now in protective cover). A little foxing to the page edges. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper.





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