The Sea Around Us - Couverture souple

Carson, Rachel

 
9781786899200: The Sea Around Us
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ISBN 10 : 1786899205 ISBN 13 : 9781786899200
Editeur : Canongate Canons, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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À propos des auteurs

Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was an American marine biologist. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sea trilogy: The Sea Around Us (winner of the National Book Award and the John Burroughs Medal), Under the Sea-Wind and The Edge of the Sea; as well as the seminal Silent Spring. Her books have been credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. In addition to the classic The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2008. In 2017, The Handmaid's Tale was adapted for an Emmy-nominated TV series and Alias Grace was adapted into a Netflix Original.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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.

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Éditeur
Canongate Canons
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1786899205
ISBN 13 
9781786899200
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
Canongate Books (Edinburgh)
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780195069976: The Sea Around Us

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0195069978 ISBN 13 :  9780195069976
Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1997
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