Contents
Preface to the 1961 Edition
I 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
II The Restless Sea
Wind and Water
Wind, Sun, and the Spinning of the Earth
The Moving Tides
III Man and the Sea About Him
The Global Thermostat
Wealth from the Salt Seas
The Encircling Sea
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Biography of Rachel Carson
Acknowledgments