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...AROUND Us (230 pp.)-Rachel Carson-Oxford University...
This is the story with which Rachel Carson opens her book about the sea. Like a television camera rolling through a museum of rare objects, The Sea Around Us focuses on almost everything connected with the world's oceans: their origins, history, inhabitants and mysteries. Miss Carson, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, writes lucidly and has a gift for popularizing without talking down to her readers...
...typical chapter is Miss Carson's biography of the surface waters. Here is the snake-mackerel, up from the depths, first seen in living form by the Kon-Tiki expedition; here the uncountable creatures called plankton, a community of minute animals and plants. In the ocean food cycle, plankton is eaten by such small fish as the herring, small fish by larger ones like the tuna, larger ones by squids, and all of these by whales. To survive, sea creatures assume remarkable disguises: the Sargasso Sea slug has a soft, shapeless body, exactly like the vegetation in which...
...Ballad of the Sad Café, by Carson McCullers. A novelette, half a dozen short stories and three novels in an impressive omnibus (TIME, June...
...Ballad of the Sad Café, by Carson McCullers. A novelette, half a dozen short stories and three novels in an impressive omnibus (TIME, June...