Under the Sea Wind

Under the Sea Wind
	First edition
Author	Rachel L. Carson
Illustrator	Howard Frech (first); Robert W. Hines (1991)
Language	English
Series	Sea trilogy
Subject	Ocean and shore life
Genre	Nature writing
Publisher	Simon & Schuster (1941); Oxford University Press (1952); Penguin Nature Classics (1996)
Publication date	1941
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Followed by	The Sea Around Us

Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life (1941) is the first book written by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson. It was published by Simon & Schuster in 1941 and received very good reviews, but sold poorly. After the great success of a sequel The Sea Around Us (Oxford, 1951), it was reissued by Oxford University Press; that edition was an alternate Book-of-the-Month Club selection and became another bestseller, and has never gone out of print.^[1] It is recognized as one of the "definitive works of American nature writing,"^[2] and is in print as one of the Penguin Nature Classics.

Under the sea-wind was reportedly Rachel Carson's personal favourite book, although first edition copies by Simon & Schuster remain scarce.

^ Sullivan, Marnie (2012). Vakoc, Douglas (ed.). Revealing the Radical in Rachel Carson's Three Sea Books. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. pp. 75–88.
^ Bryson, Michael (2002). Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology (Under the Sign of Nature). Charlottesville,VA: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 0813921074.

[:3-1] Sullivan, Marnie (2012). Vakoc, Douglas (ed.). Revealing the Radical in Rachel Carson's Three Sea Books. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. pp. 75–88.

[2] Bryson, Michael (2002). Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology (Under the Sign of Nature). Charlottesville,VA: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 0813921074.

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