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Gift from the Sea is a book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh first published in 1955.. While on vacation on Florida's Captiva Island in the early 1950s, Lindbergh wrote the essay-style work by taking shells on the beach for inspiration and reflecting on the lives of Americans, particularly American women, in the mid-20th century.
The story describes the narrator walking along the beach early one morning in the pre-dawn twilight, when he sees a man picking up a starfish off the sand and throwing it into the sea. The narrator is observant and subtle, but skeptical; he has seen many "collectors" on the beach, killing countless sea creatures for their shells. Some excerpts:
Move over, Wordle and Connections—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity fans can find on ...
The Seashell Game (貝おほひ, Kai Ōi) is a 1672 anthology compiled by Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, in which each haiku is followed by critical commentary he made as referee for a haiku contest. [1]
Colin Whitcomb Anne Morrow Lindbergh knew where to look for coveted seashells: after all Captiva (her destination of choice) and its sister island Sanibel are magnets for conchologists. Some 400 ...
Sea-shelling, usually shortened to “shelling,” is a hobby that consists of visiting a beach shoreline and collecting seashells. The goal with shelling is to find the “perfect” shell or to ...
Dover Beach" is a lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. [1] It was first published in 1867 in the collection New Poems ; however, surviving notes indicate its composition may have begun as early as 1849.
In the painting, the tide has gone out, revealing a flat expanse of sand, pools of water, rocks, and algae. Standing separately the foreground are Dyce's son with a spade looking out to sea, his wife, and her two sisters, collecting shells and fossils on the beach. The women are wrapped in shawls against the cool of the autumn evening.