The Sea Around Us

I listened to the audiobook and it was almost too soothing. I slept through/tuned out a lot, but what I heard was accessible, poetic, and comprehensive.

While this was a slow read, it was a relaxing and enchanting exploration of sea life and a look into a totally different world. Carson had a fascinating life, and glad I followed up on the reference from Popova's Figuring.

In 1951, after researching her subject for eight years, Rachel Carson published The Sea Around Us. It's the story of the ocean, including its origins, the minerals in it, the tides, the currents, the life that resides in it, and more.

Carson writes in a way that is both beautiful and yet scientifically accurate (for her time). She explains complex systems in a manner that makes them explicable to even the least scientific (me) among us.