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The sea around us Rachel Carson ; introduction by Sylvia Earle.

By: Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 [author.]Material type: TextTextCopyright date: © 1950, 1951, 1961 by Rachel L. CarsonCopyright date: Introduction copyright © 2018 Sylvia EarleDescription: xxviii, 227 p ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190906764 (paperback : alk. paper)Subject(s): OceanographyDDC classification: 551.46 LOC classification: GC21 | .C3 2018
Contents:
Introduction by Sylvia Earle -- Preface to the 1961 Edition -- Acknowledgements -- 1. MOTHER SEA -- The gray beginnings -- The pattern of the surface -- The changing year -- The sunless sea -- Hidden lands -- The long snowfall -- The birth of an island -- The shape of ancient seas -- 2. THE RESTLESS SEA -- Wind and water -- Wind, sun, and the spinning of the earth -- The moving tides -- 3. MAN AND THE SEA ABOUT HIM -- The global thermostat -- Wealth from the salt seas -- The encircling seas.
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"[Copyright] Renewed 1979 by Roger Christie"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction by Sylvia Earle -- Preface to the 1961 Edition -- Acknowledgements -- 1. MOTHER SEA -- The gray beginnings -- The pattern of the surface -- The changing year -- The sunless sea -- Hidden lands -- The long snowfall -- The birth of an island -- The shape of ancient seas -- 2. THE RESTLESS SEA -- Wind and water -- Wind, sun, and the spinning of the earth -- The moving tides -- 3. MAN AND THE SEA ABOUT HIM -- The global thermostat -- Wealth from the salt seas -- The encircling seas.

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