The Sea Around Us

^{Carson at her typewriter. She brought together a rare passion for writing with a detailed understanding of science. (Image: Brooks.)}

^{Carson writing on a dock. She expressed her love for nature first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. (Image: Edwin Gray.)}

^{Carson later in her life. Her message of living in harmony with the natural world still resonates today. (Image: Carson Archives.)}

^{A handwritten manuscript page from an early draft of The Sense of Wonder, which was published posthumously in 1965. (Image: Carson Archives.)}

Images courtesy of Rachel Carson Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

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