The Edge of the Sea
The Edge of the Sea
In The Edge of the Sea Rachel Carson introduces us to the 'strange and beautiful place' where the sea meets the land. She explores a tide pool, an inaccessible cave, and watches a lone crab on the shore at midnight. From these, and other, encounters she offers us not just a scientifically accurate study of the ecology of the seashore, but also a hauntingly beautiful account of the fragile balance of life found at the edge of the sea.
The Edge of the Sea, like all her writing, sounds a prophetic alarm for the damage mankind is doing to the natural world, but also offers us inspiration: here is beauty, here is something worth saving.
Author : Rachel Carson
Edition : Canongate Books, Paperback, 336 pages
ISBN : 9781786899149
Weight: 226g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20mm
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Author : Rachel Carson
Edition : Canongate Books, Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN : 9781786899200
Weight: 174g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16mm
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Author : Rachel Carson
Edition : Canongate Books, Paperback, 240 pages
ISBN : 9781786899279
Weight: 164g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 15mm
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Author : Marco Tedesco
Edition : Headline Publishing Group, Paperback, 160 pages
ISBN : 9781472274274
Weight: 140g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 22mm
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A New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.
The oceans are some of the last untamed frontiers on our planet.
Too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these treacherous waters play host to the extremes of human behaviour and activity.
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Author : Ian Urbina
Edition : Vintage, Paperback, 560 pages
ISBN : 9781529111392
Weight: 407 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 34 mm