"No one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry."

Rachel Carson's award-winning book about the fragile oceans is a rarity ~ a scientific work accessible enough to be a bestseller, finely drawn and lyrical as the marine ecosystem itself. The book was adapted into an Academy Award-winning documentary, that despite the critical acclaim, so disappointed Rachel, she refused to sell the film rights to any more of her books.

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