The Sea Around Us
The book I read for the 2021 NONFICTION READER CHALLENGE in the category Oceanography is The Sea Around Us , by Rachel Carson, 1961 (with an updated bibliography and introduction in the 2018 edition). I had to pick a book for this category, even though it’s not a subject that I would normally choose to read about. I’m more interested in aspects of the ocean where it meets land – islands and coastal areas, for example. The first book I ordered was The Boundless Sea by David Abulafia; the subtitle is ‘A Human History of the Oceans,’ and that seemed to combine my interests with the topic of oceanography. Unfortunately, that book (paperback version) is more than 1000 pages, and with the other activities that occupy my time, I didn’t think I’d be able to read this within a month. So, it’s still on my to-read list, but I then chose the book by Rachel Carson, which I had heard of as being ‘a classic.’ And it’s much shorter than 1000 pages. I know a bit about Rachel Carson, but more in co