Rachel Carson The Sense Of Wonder

Carson, Rachel

ISBN 10: 006010645X / ISBN 13: 9780060106454

Published by Harper And Row Publishers, 1965

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rachel Carson The Sense Of Wonder
• Publisher: Harper And Row Publishers
• Publication Date: 1965
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006010645X
• ISBN 13: 9780060106454
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good
• Weight: 19 ounces

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Synopsis

The is essentially an essay Rachel Carson wrote while she was fighting her own cancer. She had intended to expand it, but time ran out before she could. It was written for and dedicated to her orphaned nephew Roger, whom she names throughout the book. Illustrated in B & W photographs by Charles Pratt, many which were taken in the wood around her home on the Maine coast. In this eloquent book, the author of "The Sea Around Us" and "Silent Spring" affirms her belief that those who live with the mysteries of earth, sea and sky are never alone or weary of life. She would endow every child with "a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life." "If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, she writes, ""he needs the compainionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in." Her narrative and the photographs that accompany it chart the paths which adult and child can take together on this journey of discovery.

Review

Not long before she died in 1964, the noted environmental writer Rachel Carson wrote an essay for Woman's Home Companion magazine called "Helping Your Child to Wonder." In that essay--reprinted here, with photographs of natural subjects by Nick Kelsh--Carson urged parents to take their children to wild places in order to introduce them to the astonishing variety of life that exists all around us: to study birds, listen to the winds, and observe the stars. Too much of the child's subsequent education, she warns, will be devoted to dimming that "clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring" with which children are born; it is the parent's task to be an adult guide who can in turn rediscover the "excitement and mystery of the world we live in." Carson's words are timely, and this beautifully illustrated edition makes a fine gift for new and prospective mothers and fathers. --Gregory McNamee