The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning and best-selling book by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson, first published as a whole by Oxford University Press in 1951. It reveals the science and poetry of the sea while ranging from its primeval beginnings to the latest scientific probings. Often described as "poetic," it was Carson's second published book and the one that launched her into the public eye and a second career as a writer and conservationist; in retrospect it is counted the second book of her so-called sea trilogy.
First edition
Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.
Carson in 1943
Carson's childhood home, the Rachel Carson Homestead, in Springdale, Pennsylvania, in November 2009
Carson and Bob Hines researching off the East Coast in 1952
Statue of Carson at the Museo Rocsen in Nono, Córdoba, Argentina