NMLP P-025090 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Sea Around Us

Rachel Carson · Oxford University Press · 1951

The US Oxford University Press (New York) edition is the true first, published 2 July 1951; it won the 1952 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the John Burroughs Medal. A UK Staples Press edition also appeared in 1951.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-025090 for "The Sea Around Us" by Rachel Carson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025090, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).