Lost Woods by Rachel Carson

Author:Rachel Carson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780807085479
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2011-07-18T05:30:14+00:00

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[1953]

The Edge of the Sea

THIS PAPER, given the same title as her forthcoming book, was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium, “The Sea Frontier,” and was the only purely scientific paper Carson ever gave to a professional academic organization. In it she pursues such broad ecological questions as “Why does an animal live where it does?” and “What is the nature of the ties that bind it to its world?” The paper reflects Carson’s meticulous field research and the imagination with which she could apply the latest theoretical research on climate and temperature change to her general investigation of the evolution of life along the shoreline.

Although she defined herself as a scientist who wrote for the public, Carson could hold her own with the most advanced research biologists and earn their respect. In a letter to a friend, however, she admitted she was uncharacteristically nervous about her presentation at this symposium because her mentor, Henry Bryant Bigelow, Harvard scientist and former director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Laboratory, was in the audience. Carson later dedicated the 1961 edition of The Sea Around Us to Bigelow.

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