Gift from the Sea

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Acclaimed by reviewers and public alike, Gift From the Sea has won a Christopher Award and the Book Award of the National Council of Women.

According to Publishers Weekly, the book was the top nonfiction bestseller in the United States for 1955. 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. Hubbard Goldmedaille der Anne Morrow LindberghDie National Geographic Society ehrte sie 1934 als erste Frau mit der Hubbard-Goldmedaille für ihre Forschungsflüge auf allen fünf Kontinenten. But I think one can take the Christian references and common sense passages at one’s own interpretation. insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity, in freedom .

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. Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Long-Lasting 'Gift' Married to one of the world's most famous men, Anne Morrow Lindbergh often chafed at the public attention she received. it really is a lovely gift and although the book I received had been owned by someone else it makes it even more special keep handing it on to others. A great comfort and reassuring book that sums up so beautifully what it is like to be a family woman wanting to balance family life but also have the time to be her to not just a housewife not just a mother but to also have the comfort of time for herself interests and also be able to love without the need to cling on , in other words to be able to give love, but allow those she loves to be able to have their own lives too , to have their own space time and interests and yet she will still love them even through distance you can still love . 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.

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It’s a little book, and an easy one to read: short chapters, each focused on a simple idea and using a single shell as an organizing metaphor, written in simple, satisfying sentences.

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The tensions, conflicts and sufferings even in the outermost circle touch us all, reverberate in all of us.She talks about how it reminded her of a house full of children, toys and bikes everywhere, with friends spilling out, noisy, messy and chaotic. Gift from the Sea was my July pick for Tell Me What to Read, so predictably I’m writing about it here five seconds before August comes to an end. Vintage Books 1965 7 1/4" x 4 3/8" Series of delicate and wonderful essays on the lessons for our lives gained from the sea. This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide. In 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, as well as discovering new favourites.