Under the Sea Wind
First edition | |
| Author | Rachel L. Carson |
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| Illustrator | Howard Frech (first) Robert W. Hines (1991) |
| Language | English |
| Series | Sea trilogy |
| Subject | Ocean and shore life |
| Genre | Nature writing |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster (1941) Oxford University Press (1952) Penguin Nature Classics (1996) |
Publication date | 1941 |
| Publication place | United States |
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| Followed by | The Sea Around Us |
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 was reportedly Rachel Carson's personal favourite book, although first edition copies by Simon & Schuster remain scarce.