The Birth of an Island and The Shape of the Ancient seas ends the Part One entitled Mother Sea. The Long Snowfall details the phenomenon of marine snow and Globigerina oozes.

The Sunless Sea is about the history of deep sea exploration and Hidden Lands discusses early hydrographic surveying to chart the depths of the continental shelf. The Changing Year poetically talks about the changing realm of the sea the response of marine life through day and night seasons and years. The Pattern of the Surface starts off at the surface waters of the oceans and wonderful world of the plankton- wandering through the interlocking food webs and seas of the world. The Gray Beginnings shares with us the shadowy, primeval beginnings of the Earth and its early environment, exploring the geological theories as well as the evolutionary milestones throughout the history of life. Described as one of the most successful books written about the natural world, this is a poetic narrative about the life history of the oceans. Rachel Carson’s second book in the sea trilogy “The Sea Around Us” is a classic work published in 1951. – Rachel Carson during her acceptance speech of the Non fiction award at the National Book Award 1952 If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.” If they are not there, science cannot create them. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities.

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are.

I did not stop to consider whether I was doing it scientifically or poetically I was writing as the subject demanded. My own guiding purpose was to portray the subject of my sea profile with fidelity and understanding. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. It is impossible to understand man without understanding his environment and the forces that have molded him physically and mentally. Science is part of the reality of living it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. “We live in a scientific age yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priest-like in their laboratories.

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson