In this inimitable classic, graceful, lucid, and lyrical, Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age, love and marriage, peace, and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Ann Morrow Lindbergh 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 his first transoceanic airlines. The tragic death of their first child forced the Lindberg's to move to Europe for protection and privacy. When war brought them back to the United States, they established a permanent home on the Connecticut coast, where they lived quietly, wrote books, and brought up their family of five. The Lindbergh's traveled extensively to Africa and the Pacific on environmental research.
This fiftieth anniversary edition of Lindbergh's classic on the lives of modern women is sure to earn a permanent spot on audiophiles' bookshelves. It opens with a tribute by the author's daughter, Reeve Lindbergh, and is followed by Anne Lindbergh's reflections 20 years after the original publication. The main work, beautifully read by the late Claudette Colbert, compares women's lives and relationships to seashells. New love, as an example, is like a double sunrise shell--both lovely and fragile. Colbert's richly distinct and refined voice matches well the lyrical musings that urge listeners to make self-examination and self-development a priority. Today's world may seem light years beyond the 1950s, yet Lindbergh's work, perfect for the audio format, remains a timely treasure. J.J.B. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
