The sea around us
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 enjo...
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| Glavni autor: | Carson, Rachel (-) |
| Ostali autori: | Zwinger, Ann (Author of introduction, etc.), Levinton, Jeffrey S. (Author of afterword, colophon, etc.) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
c1989.
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Sadržaj:
- 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
- The restless sea. Wind and water
- Wind, sun, and the spinning of the earth
- The moving tides
- Man and the sea about him. The global thermostat
- Wealth from the salt seas
- The encircling sea.