Sarah Wasserman’s Reviews > The Sea Trilogy: Under the Sea-Wind / The Sea Around Us / The Edge of the Sea > Status Update

The Sea Around Us (1952) ✅

Honestly? I liked Under the Sea-Wind more, personally. This book had a more scientific, instructional feel. The prose was still beautiful — Rachel Carson knows how to end a chapter better than any writer I think I’ve ever read.

I’m glad I read it, and I can see why it won the National Book Award! Next (and last in this trilogy) - The Edge of the Sea (1955)

homegirl was writing this before continental drift theory was widely accepted. so I have no idea if what I’m reading is true at all. but you better believe it’s well written

just had the thought “I wonder what rachel carson would think of the song ‘under the sea’ from the little mermaid”

babe wake up it’s time for the sea around us (1952; national book award)

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Under the Sea-Wind (1941) is the only one I have read before. Reading it again was actually more enjoyable than the first! Looking forward to The Sea Around Us!