Gift from the Sea: 50th-Anniversary Edition

一本暢銷美國600萬冊的當代經典散文
「真正逐漸枯竭的不是外在的環境，而是女性的內心……」

　　一位洞悉生活本質的女性，
　　一段澄澈身心靈的島嶼假期，
　　激盪出溫柔的文字力量，
　　給想要體會生活美好，聆聽內在聲音並勇於行動的妳。

　　為了尋找一種新的生活方式，林白夫人暫別家人，獨居島嶼，她耐心拾起一枚枚貝殼、編年綴事，依著女性豐沛的情感與纖敏的直觀，自不同扇頁的流動與開啟中，聆聽自我內在的音聲，規劃出女性成長的軌跡與痕摺。

　　如詩般的散文，寫出現代女性幽微的心情轉折、自我探尋，這是古今中外女性面臨的共通問題──

　　如何在忙碌生活中，踏著優雅而沉穩的舞步，時而自在獨舞，時而與他人和諧共舞？

　　讓我們向彼此甦醒的靈魂道早安
　　它們彼此相視，沒有恐懼
　　因為是愛、相互之間的愛掌握了一切
　　它在每個地方都空出一個小小的空間
　　讓海洋探險者出發航向新世界
　　讓導引至其他世界的地圖從此展開
　　讓我們擁抱一個共同的世界；同時
　　每個人都擁有屬於他自己的世界，每個人都自成一個世界

　　★本書中譯版《來自大海的禮物》由遠流出版。

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - With meditations on youth and age, love and marriage, peace, solitude, and contentment, here is an inimitable classic that guides us to find a space for contemplation and creativity in our own lives.

＂Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form ... It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart.＂ --New York Times Book Review

Drawing inspiration from the the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s musings on the shape of a woman’s life will bring new understanding to readers, male and family, at any stage of life. A mother of five and professional writer, she casts an unsentimental eye at the trappings of modern life that threaten to overwhelm us--the timesaving gadgets that complicate our lives, the overcommitments that take us from our families.

With great wisdom and insight she describes the shifting shapes of relationships and marriage, presenting a vision of a life lived in enduring and evolving partnership. A groundbreaking work when it was first published, this book has retained its freshness as it has been rediscovered by generations of readers and is no less current today.

作者簡介

林白夫人（Anne Morrow Lindbergh）

　　一九○六年生，一九二九年與查爾斯．林白結婚，伴隨夫婿環繞北大西洋飛行探險，首度開發出橫越海洋的飛行航線。她同時是美國著名小說家、散文家及詩人，著有《The Unicorn And Other Poems》、《North To The Orient》、《Listen! The Wind》。

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906. She married Charles Lindbergh in 1929 and became a noted aviator in her own right, eventually publishing several books on the subject and receiving several aviation awards. Gift from the Sea, published in 1955, earned her international acclaim. She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey. Mrs. Lindbergh died in 2001 at the age of ninety-four.