![]() It was the cruel training ground where sea creatures learned The tidal strip has, also, a philosophical importance. No habitat on earth is more fiercely contended none supports more teeming and more varied life. “The Edge of the Sea” lacks the organ tones of Miss Carson’s “The Sea Around Us.” It deals not with the sea as a majestic whole but with the narrow strip of part-time sea bottom that rings the land between Miss Carson, like the Ancient Mariner, loves them, both great and small. Some of them are smallĪnd have single red eyes others are large with powerful pincers. If readers follow Miss Carson to livelier spots-a rocky shore or a sheltered mud flat- they will find that each square inch of rock and each cubic inch of mud is fought for by companies of strange and vivid creatures. They will find their lightly buried crabs and their fierce, predacious moon shells burrowing deep in the sand in search of clams-their prey. ![]() ![]() Yet even such beaches have life, and readers of Rachel Carson’s “The Edge of the Sea” will learn how to find their blue-eyed sand fleas, each walled in its tunnel waiting for the The clean, wave-pounded and ofīathing beaches is comparatively barren. ![]() Hen modern city dwellers go down to the sea in bathing suits they see few sea creatures except gulls and jellyfish. Between the Mark of High Tide and Low By JONATHAN N. ![]()
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