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    <body><![CDATA[Lacks the frightening overtones of Silent Spring.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great!<br/><br/>Rachel Carson has a way of making science sound like poetry.  I hope someday I have a tenth of her talent in conveying how beautiful and exciting science and nature are to me.  She is so passionate that it rubs off on the reader.  All I wanted to do while reading this was to be by ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1103267">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[even though it was written in the 50's, it is still important.  she is a poet and scientist and i love that combination.  this book is an amazing mix of learning new things about the ocean that are still true and experiencing the wonder of a night sky in the middle of the ocean where there are more ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28354370">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm embarassed to admit that I only recently have known much about Rachel Carson. Once I read ABOUT her, I had to read what she had written. This is the 2nd book in her trilogy about the sea. Every night I float off into the ocean with her and don't want to put her books down.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful.  The sea is a place of wonders and Rachel Carson- nobel-prize winning marine biologist is a great tour-guide.  This book beings the emotional appeal of the sea together with the scientific marvels of the sea.  Liked it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this in high school for an environmental science class. I dreaded the idea of reading this book, expecting to be bored to tears. Not so. Surprisingly fascinating, not written in a cut-and-dried rote-memory textbook style.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[beautiful stuff in this book. it's about the sea and it's nonfiction. but it's written with such a subtle and emotional style. it's like an epic, about all the things in the sea, and the sea itself, and how everything changes. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the most beautifully-written books I have ever read. Scientific poetry. Poetical science. I don't know how to describe it, but it's beautiful, just beautiful.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Sea Around Us]]>
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    <![CDATA[Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapulted her book to first place on The New York Times best-seller list, where it enjoyed wide attention for thirty-one consecutive weeks. It remained on the list for more than a year and a half and ultimately sold well over a million copies, has been translated into 28 languages, inspired an Academy Award-winning documentary, and won both the 1952 National Book Award and the John Burroughs Medal.      This classic work remains as fresh today as when it first appeared. Carson's writing teems with stunning, memorable images--the newly formed Earth cooling beneath an endlessly overcast sky; the centuries of nonstop rain that created the oceans; giant squids battling sperm whales hundreds of fathoms below the surface; and incredibly powerful tides moving 100 billion tons of water daily in the Bay of Fundy. Quite simply, she captures the mystery and allure of the ocean with a compelling blend of imagination and expertise.      Reintroducing a classic work to a whole new generation of readers, this Special Edition features a new chapter written by Jeffrey Levinton, a leading expert in marine ecology, that brings the scientific side of The Sea Around Us completely up to date.  Levinton incorporates the most recent thinking on continental drift, coral reefs, the spread of the ocean floor, the deterioration of the oceans, mass extinction of sea life, and many other topics.  In addition, acclaimed nature writer Ann Zwinger has contributed a brief foreword.     Today, with the oceans endangered by the dumping of medical waste and ecological disasters such as the Exxon oil spill in Alaska, this illuminating volume provides a timely reminder of both the fragility and the importance of the ocean and the life that abounds within it. Anyone who loves the sea, or who is concerned about our natural environment, will want to read this classic work.]]>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's like reading a marine biology text book, but 10x better!]]></body>
    
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