Carson’s first book, Under the Sea-Wind (1941), about the migratory patterns of fish and birds along North America’s Atlantic coast, concludes: “For once more the mountains would be worn ...

THE DISTANT SHORE (309 pp.)—Jan de Hartog—Harper ($3.50).One phenomenon of the bestseller lists these days is the plentiful variety of good seagoing fare. Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny ...

Rachel Carson 1907 - 1964. ... While working as a scientist-bureaucrat for the government, Carson continued writing. In 1941, she published Under the Sea-Wind, her first book.

ABOVE: Courtesy OF Rachel Carson Council, Rex Gary Schmidt. T he sea, Rachel Carson once wrote, is the “great mother of life.” Most know Carson for Silent Spring, an environmental manifesto that ...

Rachel Carson was an unlikely revolutionary. ... From 1941 to 1955 she had written three bestselling marine biology books: Under the Sea-Wind, The Sea Around Us, and The Edge of the Sea.

The historian, whose new book is “Silent Spring Revolution,” would also invite E.O. Wilson and Rachel Carson: “We could talk about the 11,000 bird species the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is ...