The sea around us
Rachel Carson ; introduction by Sylvia Earle.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2018
- xxviii, 227 p ; 21 cm
"[Copyright] Renewed 1979 by Roger Christie"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction by Sylvia Earle -- Preface to the 1961 Edition -- Acknowledgements -- 1. MOTHER SEA -- The gray beginnings -- The pattern of the surface -- The changing year -- The sunless sea -- Hidden lands -- The long snowfall -- The birth of an island -- The shape of ancient seas -- 2. THE RESTLESS SEA -- Wind and water -- Wind, sun, and the spinning of the earth -- The moving tides -- 3. MAN AND THE SEA ABOUT HIM -- The global thermostat -- Wealth from the salt seas -- The encircling seas.