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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.
Pantheon
October 1991
144 pages
ISBN: 0679406832
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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.
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