Under the Sea Wind Author:Rachel Carson For the centennial of the birth of Silent Spring author Rachel Carson, a new edition of her groundbreaking paean to the sea — Celebrating the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, "Under the Sea-Wind" Rachel Carson's first book and her personal favorite is the early masterwork of one o... more »f America's greatest nature writers. Evoking the special mystery and beauty of the shore and the open sea -- its limitless vistas and twilight depths -- Carson's astonishingly intimate, unforgettable portrait captures the delicate negotiations of an ingeniously calibrated ecology.« less