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Gift from the Sea

Gift from the Sea Hardcover - 1991

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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In time for the holiday season--in an appropriate and enticing new format, and with a striking new jacket--a spectacular hardcover reissue of one of the most beloved books of our time. Since it was first published in 1955, Gift from the Sea has enlightened and offered solace to readers on subjects from love and marriage to peace and contentment.

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Pantheon Books, October 1991. Hardcover . 2004&Bargains/No Jacket. Good condition blue hardcover witth some pencil underlining. SAVE ON SHIPPING: Additional books ship for $1.00 each Between the Covers!
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  • Title Gift from the Sea
  • Author Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - 2004&Bargains
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pantheon Books, New York
  • Date October 1991
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 95960
  • ISBN 9780679406839 / 0679406832
  • Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.7 x 5.52 x 0.65 in (17.02 x 14.02 x 1.65 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Library of Congress subjects Life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 76056244
  • Dewey Decimal Code 170.202

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From the publisher

Reeve Lindbergh is the author of many books for both adults and children, including the memoirs Under a Wing and No More Words.

First line

The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.

From the jacket flap

In this inimitable, beloved classic--graceful, lucid and lyrical--Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh's musings on the shape of a woman's life bring new understanding to both men and women at any stage of life. A mother of five, an acclaimed writer and a pioneering aviator, Lindbergh casts an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple commitments that take us from our families. And by recording her thoughts during a brief escape from everyday demands, she helps readers find a space for contemplation and creativity within their own lives.
With great wisdom and insight Lindbergh describes the shifting shapes of relationships and marriage, presenting a vision of life as it is lived in an enduring and evolving partnership. A groundbreaking, best-selling work when it was originally published in 1955, Gift from the Sea continues to be discovered by new generations of readers. With a new introduction by Lindbergh's daughter Reeve, this fiftieth-anniversary edition will give those who are revisiting the book and those who are coming upon it for the first time fresh insight into the life of this remarkable woman.
The sea and the beach are elements that have been woven throughout Anne Morrow Lindbergh's life. She spent her childhood summers with her family on a Maine island. After her marriage to Charles Lindbergh in 1929, she accompanied him on his survey flights around the NorthAtlantic to launch the first transoceanic airlines. The Lindberghs eventually established a permanent home on the Connecticut coast, where they lived quietly, wrote books and raised their family.
After the children left home for lives of their own, the Lindberghs traveled extensively to Africa and the Pacific for environmental research. For
several years they lived on the island of Maui in Hawaii, where Charles Lindbergh died in 1974.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh spent her final years in her Connecticut home, continuing her writing projects and enjoying visits from her children and grand-children. She died on February 7, 2001, at the age
of ninety-four.
Reeve Lindbergh is the author of many books for both adults and children, including the memoirs Under a Wing and No More Words.

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  • Library Journal, 04/01/2005, Page 134

About the author

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906. She married Charles Lindbergh in 1929 and became a noted aviator in her own right, eventually publishing several books on the subject and receiving several aviation awards. Gift from the Sea, published in 1955, earned her international acclaim. She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the National Women's Hall of Fame, and the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey. Mrs. Lindbergh died in 2001 at the age of ninety-four.

Reeve Lindbergh is the author of many books for both adults and children, including the memoirs Under a Wing and No More Words.