External audioīooks and Authors Luncheon: Rachel Carson, 1951, Carson speaks from 3:00 to 20:15, WNYC By that time, several periodicals ( The New Yorker, Science Digest, and The Yale Review) were interested in publishing some of the chapters. After revising the completion date, Carson completed the manuscript in June 1950. Fish and Wildlife Service ship, Albatross III. In part the research involved a trip aboard a U.S. Carson continued to write and research through 1949 and into 1950, despite unexpected health and financial difficulties. By June she had arranged a contract with Oxford University Press that promised completion of the manuscript by March 1, 1950. Carson and Rodell had little initial success with magazines as outlets for the islands chapter, nor for a second chapter titled "Another Beachhead." In April 1949, with about a third of the chapters complete, Rodell began trying to find a publisher for the entire book. During research for the book, Carson met with a number of oceanographers to discuss current research.
Carson began by writing a single chapter (what would be "The Birth of an Island") along with a detailed outline, which Rodell used to pitch the book to publishers. Carson initially planned to call the sequel Return to the Sea, and began writing in 1948, just after hiring Marie Rodell as her literary agent. Simon & Schuster had published her first book Under the Sea Wind in 1941 it was reviewed favorably but it sold poorly. It remained on the New York Times Best Seller List for 86 weeks and it has been translated into 28 languages. The Sea Around Us won both the 1952 National Book Award for Nonfiction Īnd a Burroughs Medal in nature writing. Often described as "poetic," it was Carson's second published book and the one that launched her into the public eye and a second career as a writer and conservationist in retrospect it is counted the second book of her so-called sea trilogy. It reveals the science and poetry of the sea while ranging from its primeval beginnings to the latest scientific probings. The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning and best-selling book by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson, first published as a whole by Oxford University Press in 1951. July 1951 (previously serialized in part)
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