- Hardcover: 132 pages
- Publisher: Pantheon Books Inc; Pantheon 1991 ed edition (1 Dec 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679406832
- ISBN-13: 978-0679406839
- Product Dimensions: 13.6 x 1.8 x 17.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 721,562 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 North Atlantic 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.
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 North Atlantic 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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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful
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I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered this book was written in 1955. Well before the the woman's liberation movement of the seventies. The book contains many aspects of feminism but in an extremely positive light. The author is a housewife with five children who goes on holiday to the sea for a week per year. The book is about her views on the different stages a woman will find herself in during her life and she relates each of these stages to a type of seashell. It is full of many poignant insights about a womans place in the world which you wouldn't have expected from a housewife of the fifties, as it addresses the spiritual aspects of a woman as well as her roles as a wife, mother, friend etc.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I found this book after an extract had been read at a wedding. If only I had been given this book as a teenager all those years ago. In its gentle and beutifully written text there lies reassurance and support, and endorsement for the need of all human beings to have space and time for themselves. I have read and reread this book, finding something new and inspiring each time. It is a tribute to the writer that the text transcends the time at which it was written and holds meaning for the present day. I have made a gift of this book to my daughter along with Return to the Sea: Reflections on Anne Morrow Lindbergh's "Gift from the Sea" a wonderful companion volume.
I can only reiterate what Anne M Johnson writes...
"Gift from The Sea"... I don't think I would say I had merely read it. I had breathed it. I had drawn life from it. I had wrapped myself up in it like an unborn child nestled in a mother's womb.
A worthwhile gift for any daughter.
I can only reiterate what Anne M Johnson writes...
"Gift from The Sea"... I don't think I would say I had merely read it. I had breathed it. I had drawn life from it. I had wrapped myself up in it like an unborn child nestled in a mother's womb.
A worthwhile gift for any daughter.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This beautiful meditation on what it is to be a woman, with all the wonders and challenges is truly a gift. one woman's thoughts and observations capture the essence of the questions that women grow and live with.A deeply spiritual and beautifully written piece that is fresh, timeless and thought provoking.
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