Rachel Carson The Sense Of Wonder

Rachel Carson The Sense Of Wonder by carson, rachel. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780060106454.

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.