National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller: Explore earth's most precious, mysterious resourcethe oceanwith the author of Silent Spring. With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Ca

蕾切尔·卡森(Rachel L.Carson，1907—1964)　美国著名自然文学作家，环境保护运动的先驱，被誉为“生态环保之母”。1929年毕业于宾夕法尼亚女子学院，1932年在霍普金斯大学获动物学硕士学位，1936年成为美国渔业管理局聘用的水生生物学家。1951年出版的《海洋传》(The Sea Around Us)39周蝉联《纽约时报》畅销排行第一。1962年出版的《寂静的春天》(Silent Spring)在社会上引起极大反响，推动了环境保护事业迅速发展。她的著作还有《在海风下》(Under the Sea-Wind)、《海洋的边缘》(The Edge of the Sea)等。

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本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

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The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

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