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In questa storia del mare, madre di ogni forma di vita, Rachel Carson - biologa e simbolo del movimento ambientalista - passa in rassegna le oscure origini dei bacini oceanici, gli antichissimi mari formatisi dopo secoli di piogge incessanti, la potenza delle maree e dei venti che modellano i continenti, il potere distruttivo degli tsunami e le misteriose forme di vita che animano gli abissi, dai microrganismi ai grandi capodogli. "Il mare intorno a noi", nel corso degli anni ha ispirato un documentario vincitore del premio Oscar e ha conseguito prestigiosi riconoscimenti internazionali, come il National Book Award e la John Borroughs Medal. A quasi sessant'anni dalla prima pubblicazione, con la salute degli oceani minacciata dall'inquinamento, la graduale scomparsa della Barriera corallina e lo scioglimento delle calotte polari, questo libro rappresenta un promemoria sull'importanza e la fragilità degli oceani e della vita che ospitano.
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- Pagine: 274
- Data di uscita: 04-07-2019
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This amazing book, the winner of the 1952 National Book Award, is my second Rachel Carson book read. I picked it up in part because I'm determined to keep up with my love of nature writing/Nature Literature, but perhaps more because there's something about Carson's style that really pulls me in. If
The only reason I’m not rating this 5 stars is because at 60 years old much of the info is dated, but it’s an astonishing work of science, history, and dare I say, poetry. Earth’s oceans are the big news of the universe - as far as we know, the only seas in all creation. They drive the life of the p Leggi tutto
Having first read Silent Spring (Rachel Carson's fourth published book) back in the sixties, I've delved into her other books over the years. The Sea Around Us was Carson's second published book (the first being her 1941 book Under the Sea Wind ) and the one that launched her into the public eye and Leggi tutto
Without reservation I can say this is one of the most amazing reading experiences I have ever had. I rarely read non-fiction in book form. When I do, I read memoirs, biographies (usually of writers and artists), and occasionally history, but never science. I decided to read The Sea Around Us because Leggi tutto
4.5*
Reading nonfiction books on marine biology or ecology isn’t something I would normally choose to do on holiday but Rachel Carson writes narrative nonfiction that turns science and observation into a thrilling and insightful pageturner. And this second book in the trilogy, a New York Times bestseller Leggi tutto
Great book will add more to this review later, the book went straight from my hand to a love one’s, you got to read this I told them so I say the same thing to you I would say to my own blood this book is awesome! If your interested in science, nature, or global warming why wouldn’t you want to know Leggi tutto
I finished yet another brilliant book by Rachel Carson, now dated, but a great account on the sea. Here you read about the deep ocean, how the waves are affected by various factors, the minerals of the sea, the temperature of the sea, the nature of islands. A lot of stuff I entirely forgot from my c Leggi tutto
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