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Gift from the Sea
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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 u... more »nderstanding 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.

She helps us see ways to reconcile our most deeply personal needs with obligations to family, friends, lovers, and work, ways to separate loneliness from replenishing solitude, and ways to find solace in the simplest of daily tasks.

Now more than ever, Gift from the Sea serves as a spiritual compass guiding us toward inner tranquility in the face of life's deeper questions.

ISBN-13: 9780679732419
ISBN-10: 0679732411
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Pantheon
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Sheena (dazeerae) reviewed Gift from the Sea on 6/8/2008 + 54 more book reviews

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Gift from the Sea is a beautiful story about the author's summer of solitude on the shore. She uses the different shells she finds to represent the different stages of a woman's life. While living alone in a beach shack, she learns to appreciate living simply, finding joy in the mundane while reflecting on the richness of life.

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Donna K. (lizzy7) reviewed Gift from the Sea on 1/1/2011

I loved this book. An easy read and a beautiful journal of a woman's solitary thoughts on life, love and family, inner peace and acceptance during her escape to an oceanside beach house. Her reflections by the sea.

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Betsy T. reviewed Gift from the Sea on 8/8/2010 + 3 more book reviews

Inspiring

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Robin1 reviewed Gift from the Sea on 9/29/2009 + 25 more book reviews

Interesting and true writing of Anne Morrow Lindbergh from a summer she spent alone at the ocean. Some of it sad, some enlightening. I liked it. Quick read.

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