In this remarkable and trailblazing book, Rachel Carson tackles the strange and beautiful places at the edge of the sea, leading us into unknown worlds to catch the evanescent beauty of a tide pool and tell the story of a grain of sand. Focusing on the plants and invertebrates surviving in the Atlantic zones between the lowest and the highest tides from Newfoundland to the Florida Keys. The Edge of the Sea is divided into three main sections: "The Rocky Shores," "The Rim of Sand," and "The Coral Coast." Though these environments are found the world over, because of its configuration in geological history, the American Atlantic coast demonstrates their life partners "almost with the clarity of a well-conceived scientific experiment." Rachel Carson embarks on a brilliant exploration of this seashore, painting a masterful portrait of the life found on these coasts and drawing conclusions that have forever changed our relationship to the sea. With poetry and science. Caron transforms the seemingly simple animal and plan life in the sea into complex and stunningly beautiful creatures deserving of our compassion, understanding, and, finally, protection. This edition celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the 1955 publication and features a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author and naturalist Sy Montgomery, a lifelong fan, who writes: "Fortified by the power and promise we can find at the ocean's edge, may you gather the courage we all need to fight, like Rachel Carson, to protect our increasingly beleaguered blue planet.

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