RACHEL CARSON: A Crusading Environmentalist Rachel Carson and Bob Hines conducting marine biology research in Florida, 1952 Carson's first three books were about the sea: 1941's UNDER THE SEA WIND, best-selling THE SEA AROUND US (1951), and THE EDGE OF THE SEA, (1955). "The face of the sea is always changing. Crossed by colors, lights and moving shadows, sparkling in the sun, mysterious in the twilight, its aspects and its moods vary hour by hour." -- Rachel Carson, THE SEA AROUND US