The Sea Around Us - Softcover

Carson, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195069978 ISBN 13: 9780195069976

Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Rachel Carson

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Reseña del editor

Here is the strange story of the seas - how they were born, how life emerged from them, and the marine world within them. Rachel Carson's writing teems with images - the newly-formed Earth cooling beneath an endlessly overcast sky; volcanic action throwing up huge masses on the ocean floor to create immense mountains and desolate canyons; giant squid battling sperm-whales hundreds of fathoms below the surface. A new chapter by Jeffrey Levinton, brings the science of "The Sea Around Us" up to date. Levinton incorporates the most recent thinking on continental drift, coral reefs, the spread of the ocean floor, the deterioration of the oceans, mass extinction of sea life, and many other topics. First published in 1951, this work won the National Book Award.

Biografía del autor

The late Rachel Carson was for many years a marine biologist and then editor-in-chief of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. She was also the author of Silent Spring, Under the Sea Wind, and At the Edge of the Sea. Jeffrey Levinton teaches at the State University f New York at Stony Brook and is the author of Marine Ecology. Ann Zwinger is the author of A Desert Country Near the Sea, Beyond the Aspen Grove, and Run, River, Run.

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• Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0195069978
• ISBN 13: 9780195069976
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278