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| Author | Rachel L. Carson |
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| Illustrator | Howard Frech (first) Robert W. Hines (1991) |
| Language | English |
| Series | Sea trilogy |
| Subject | Ocean and shore life |
| Genre | Nature writing |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster (1941) Oxford University Press (1952) Penguin Nature Classics (1996) |
Publication date | 1941 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Followed by | The Sea Around Us |
Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life (1941) is the first book written by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson. It was published by Simon & Schuster in 1941 and received very good reviews, but sold poorly. After the great success of a sequel The Sea Around Us (Oxford, 1951), it was reissued by Oxford University Press; that edition was an alternate Book-of-the-Month Club selection and became another bestseller, and has never gone out of print.[1] It is recognized as one of the "definitive works of American nature writing,"[2] and is in print as one of the Penguin Nature Classics.
Under the sea-wind was reportedly Rachel Carson's personal favourite book, although first edition copies by Simon & Schuster remain scarce.
- ^ Sullivan, Marnie (2012). Vakoc, Douglas (ed.). Revealing the Radical in Rachel Carson's Three Sea Books. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. pp. 75–88.
- ^ Bryson, Michael (2002). Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology (Under the Sign of Nature). Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 0813921074.