Under the Sea Wind

Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life (1941) is the first book written by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson. It was published by Simon & Schuster in 1941 and received very good reviews, but sold poorly. After the great success of a sequel The Sea Around Us (Oxford, 1951), it was reissued by Oxford University Press; that edition was an alternate Book-of-the-Month Club selection and became another bestseller, and has never gone out of print. It is recognized as one of the "definitive works of American nature writing," and is in print as one of the Penguin Nature Classics.

Under the Sea Wind
First edition
AuthorRachel L. Carson
IllustratorHoward Frech (first)
Robert W. Hines (1991)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSea trilogy
SubjectOcean and shore life
GenreNature writing
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Oxford 1952; Penguin Nature Classics 1996
Publication date
1941
Media typePrint
Followed byThe Sea Around Us 
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