First published in 1955 and an instant bestseller, Gift from the Sea's insights – into aspects of the modern world that threaten to overwhelm us, the complications of technology, the ever multiplying commitments that take us from our families - are as relevant today as they ever were, perhaps even more so. Graues Leinen mit geprägten Deckelvignetten (3 Muscheln), goldgeprägten Rückentiteln und Kopffarbschnitt. While vacationing on Captiva Island, Florida, Lindbergh explores the questions of how to find a new, more natural rhythm of life and how to gain a deeper relationship with herself and others.

Reeve Lindbergh is the author of many books for both adults and children, including the memoirs Under a Wing and No More Words.As World War II approached, coverage of the Lindberghs took another turn, as Charles Lindbergh offered generally admiring reports on Nazi Germany's development of the airplane. Recently shortlisted for the Great Reads Award, this debut YA novel is funny, warm hearted and encouraging for anyone who feels they just don’t fit ‘the mould’. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. It was especially helpful to hear this because, one, she did have a creative vocation before her empty nest and yet, she still experienced the shift and two, she acknowledges that there is not even a hint of this among other women and books. In Chapter 2, Lindbergh finds a whelk shell and contrasts its simplicity with the complicated nature of her own life.

No doubt because of where I am in my own life, I was most interested in the chapter on the ‘oyster bed. It looks rather like the house of a big family, pushing out one addition after another to hold its teeming life” (p. Her answer was to concentrate on “the here, the now, the individual,” “the drops that make up the stream,” “not as a retreat from greater responsibility, but as a first real step toward a deeper understanding and solution of them” (pp 127-128).In making her book so accessible, so broadly applicable, Lindbergh has made herself too generic, her voice and story too impersonal. According to Publishers Weekly, the book was the top nonfiction bestseller in the United States for 1955. Something Victoria’s essay brings out that I didn’t mention but which is also really important is what an interesting text it is about feminism, too.