Gift From The Sea
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 5th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
From the quiet shore of a Florida beach, Anne Morrow Lindbergh — aviator, poet, and one of the most admired women of the twentieth century — presents a timeless meditation on solitude, simplicity, and the lives of women in the modern age. Drawing on the natural symbolism of shells gathered from the sea, Gift from the Sea argues with lyrical clarity that inner peace is not found in the relentless pace of contemporary life, but in moments of stillness, purposeful withdrawal, and honest self-reflection. Each shell becomes a metaphor for a different stage of womanhood — from the early intensity of love to the hard-won tranquility of maturity — chronicling a journey inward that resonates as powerfully today as when it was first written. Lindbergh's prose is at once intimate and universal, combining the confessional warmth of a personal journal with the philosophical precision of an essayist steeped in the great humanist tradition. First published in 1955, the book became an immediate bestseller and has since endured as a quiet classic of American letters, beloved across generations for its rare ability to articulate what so many feel but struggle to name. What does it truly mean to live a life of one's own — and can that life coexist with devotion to others? Gift from the Sea does not offer easy answers, only the kind of searching questions that stay with a reader long after the final page is turned.
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Format: Hardback
Published: 1959, Chatto and Windus
Genre: Self help & mindfulness
Edition: 5th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
From the quiet shore of a Florida beach, Anne Morrow Lindbergh — aviator, poet, and one of the most admired women of the twentieth century — presents a timeless meditation on solitude, simplicity, and the lives of women in the modern age. Drawing on the natural symbolism of shells gathered from the sea, Gift from the Sea argues with lyrical clarity that inner peace is not found in the relentless pace of contemporary life, but in moments of stillness, purposeful withdrawal, and honest self-reflection. Each shell becomes a metaphor for a different stage of womanhood — from the early intensity of love to the hard-won tranquility of maturity — chronicling a journey inward that resonates as powerfully today as when it was first written. Lindbergh's prose is at once intimate and universal, combining the confessional warmth of a personal journal with the philosophical precision of an essayist steeped in the great humanist tradition. First published in 1955, the book became an immediate bestseller and has since endured as a quiet classic of American letters, beloved across generations for its rare ability to articulate what so many feel but struggle to name. What does it truly mean to live a life of one's own — and can that life coexist with devotion to others? Gift from the Sea does not offer easy answers, only the kind of searching questions that stay with a reader long after the final page is turned.