Stenorynchus seticornis
Sting ray
Strombus alatus
Strombus gigas
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
Surf zone; dwellers in
Synalpheus brooksi
Syngnathus sp.
Talorchestia longicornis
Tectarius muricatus
Tellin, rose (Tellina lineata)
Temperature, and climatic change; and effects on sea life; influence of ocean currents on
Ten Thousand Islands
Terebra
Teredo navalis
Thais lapillus
Thalassia testudinum
Thallophytes
Thelochistes parietinus
Tidal zones of life
Tide-pool insect (Anurida maritima)
Tide pools
Tides and biological rhythm; effects on reproduction; neap; range on Atlantic coast; semi-diurnal rhythm of; spring
Toadfish
Tonna galea
Transverse ark (Anadara transversa)
Trepang
Trumpet worm (Cistenides gouldi)
Tube-building worms
Tubularia crocea
Tulip shell, banded (Fasciolaria hunteria)
Tunicate, golden-star (Botryllus schlosseri)
Turkey wing (Area zebra)
Turtle grass (Thalassia testudinum)
Turtles, green, hawksbill, loggerhead
Tylosura raphidoma
Tyrian purple
Uca pugilator and Uca pugnax
Umbilicaria sp.
Usnea barbata
Valonia macrophysa
Velella mutica
Vermetid snails (Petaloconchus and Vermicularia)
Violet snail (Janthina janthina)
Volsella modiolus
Whelk; channeled (Busycon canaliculatum); common (Buccinum undatum); dog (Thais lapillus); knobbed (Busycon carica)
“White water”
Whiting (Merluccius bilinearis)
Wood piddock (Martesia cuneiformis)
“Worm rock”
Wrack; bladder (Fucus vesiculosis); channeled (Pelvetia canaliculata); forked (Fucus edentatus); knotted (Ascophyllum nodosum); spiral (Fucus spiralis)
Zoanthus sociatus
Zones of life, tidal
Copyright
FIRST MARINER BOOKS EDITION 1998
Introduction copyright © 1998 by Sue Hubble
Text copyright © 1955 by Rachel L. Carson
Text copyright © renewed 1983 by Roger Christie
Illustrations copyright © 1955 by Robert W. Hines
Illustrations copyright © renewed 1983 by Robert W. Hines
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carson, Rachel, 1907–1964.
The edge of the sea / by Rachel Carson; with illustrations by
Bob Hines and a new introduction by Sue Hubbell.—
1st Mariner Books ed.
p. cm.
“A Mariner book.”
ISBN-13: 978-0-395-07505-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-395-92496-9 (pbk.)
ISBN-10: 0-395-07505-x ISBN-10: 0-395-92496-0 (pbk.)
1. Seashore biology. I. Hubbell, Sue. II. Tide.
QH95.7.C385 1998
578.769’9—dc21 98-44435 CIP
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
QUM 16 15 14 13 12 11 10
Parts of this book first appeared in The New Yorker.