The Sea Around Us

Author: Carson, Rachel, Atwood, Margaret

Biography & True Stories

Published on 3 June 2021 by Canongate Books (Canongate Canons) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Canons' series.

Paperback / softback | 256 pages, Integrated black and white illustrations; Illustrations, unspecified
128 x 198 x 21 | 186g

The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only she can, to take us from the creation of the oceans, through their role in shaping life on Earth, to what the future holds. It was prophetic at the time it was written, alerting the world to a crisis in the climate, and it speaks to the fragility and centrality of the oceans and the life that abounds within them.