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Rebecca Giggs is the author of Fathoms: The World in the Whale. Next year she will be a Literature Fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. (December 2022)
The Sea, the Sea
Rachel Carson’s ocean books reveal an author profoundly engaged with the problem of how to convey ecological knowledge—and how to decenter human life.
The Sea Trilogy: Under the Sea-Wind, The Sea Around Us, The Edge of the Sea
by Rachel Carson, edited by Sandra Steingraber
December 22, 2022 issue
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