Gift from the Sea
modern-day classic. "Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form . . . It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart."—New York Times Book Review.
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Gift from the Sea
modern-day classic. "Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form . . . It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart."—New York Times Book Review.
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Overview

modern-day classic. "Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form . . . It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart."—New York Times Book Review.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780679406839
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/08/1991
Series: Chatto Pocket Library Series
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.23(w) x 6.97(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906. She married Charles Lindbergh in 1929 and became a noted aviator in her own right, eventually publishing several books on the subject and receiving several aviation awards. Gift from the Sea, published in 1955, earned her international acclaim. She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the National Women's Hall of Fame, and the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey. War Within and Without, the penultimate installment of her published diaries, received the Christopher Award in 1980. Mrs. Lindbergh died in 2001 at the age of ninety-four.

Read an Excerpt

I began these pages for myself, in order to think out my own particular pattern of living, my own individual balance of life, work and human relationships. And since I think best with a pencil in my hand, I started naturally to write. I had the feeling, when the thoughts first clarified on paper, that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?) My situation had, in certain ways, more freedom than that of most people, and in certain other ways, much less.
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Table of Contents

Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by Reeve Lindbergh vii 

1 The Beach 7 
2 Channelled Whelk 13 
3 Moon Shell 31 
4 Double-Sunrise 53 
5 Oyster Bed 69 
6 Argonauta 81 
7 A Few Shells 103 
8 The Beach at My Back 113 

Gift from the Sea Re-opened 121
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