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	• Gift From the Sea Anne Morrow Lindbergh Random House Audio, 1987 average customer review:based on 106 reviews
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highly recommended

The Gift of Solitude

20 years or so ago this book stunned me with its timely message for women and artists. Recently I heard Anne Morrow Lindbergh's youngest child, Reeve, discussing the 50th anniversary release of her mother's book. She said her mother's sister thought Anne had gone to Captiva alone, intending to "write herself out of her marriage, but instead had written herself back into it." Intrigued by this personal insight I took up my old copy and have started reading it again.

I am now a few years older than she was when she wrote the book at mid-life. I amazed at how the book holds up, how relevant are her words to modern life and Feminism (with a captial "F" as she writes it), and her spot-on advice to artists of all media. Recent revelations that her American hero husband was a secret world-class philanderer, fathering at least seven illegimate children with three different European women, make the veiled anguish she must have been experiencing all the more poignant.

Without whining or humbling herself, the author conveys with grace her personal truths, wrested in the quiet solitude of beachcombing. A spare and simple writer who yearned for a simple life, she must have been often overwhelmed by the complexities of her own. The seashell analogies are thoughtful and lovely, simple and clean as her writing. But this simple book of few pages requires a long and gentle read, made so by the inevitable introspection it will provoke. I hope that Anne Morrow Lindbergh achieved the inner peace she sought, because her simple words have surely been a gift to others.

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Excellent Read

I picked this up at a bed and breakfast and finished it in 2 nights!

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Gifts from the Sea

This is a beautiful book. One of my most favorites. It's a classic written for women to reflect on the beautiful things in life. I give it often as a gift to other women. I bought this as brand new on Amazon and it came in excellent condition. I would recommend this to anyone.

Woman's Book gets Man's Attention !

As a man I immensely enjoyed this 'woman's' book. Mrs. Lindberg uses masterful metaphor to tell her tale of inner discovery. Her level of insight kept my attention throughout this short memoir. I will go on the record and call this a man's book also. There are so many lessons that cross the gender lines. I believe that I also have a better understanding of women in general. Her relationship advice is sublime. I have included my favorite quotes:

"Duration is not the test of true or false."

"There is no one-and-only, there are just one-and-only moments."

"Neither is the answer in dissipating our time and energy in more purposeless occupations, more accumulations which supposedly simplify life but actually burden it, more possessions which we have not time to use or appreciate, more diversions to fill up the void."

"Saint Exupery said 'Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.'"

Five Stars

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A Masterpiece

This is Anne Morrow Lindbergh's masterpiece.

Ms. Lindbergh was a great writer. She had the ability to make a few words say a lot, to express the transcendant through the mundane. In none of her books does she do a better job than this one. In all of her writings Ms. Lindbergh shares a little part of herself; in this book, she shares her essence. One tends to feel, while reading her book, that one is receiving the confidences of a dear friend.

Decades ago, after a brief perusal of Gift from the Sea, I concluded that it was a book for women. For years I gave away copies to female friends as Christmas gifts. More recently, I took a closer look and realized that it transcends gender boundaries. This book is for everyone who longs to find and maintain their spiritual center in the midst of a busy and hectic world. Take Gift to a quiet place in nature and read it alone. If you're like me, when you get to the end you'll want to whisper a word of thanks to the author.

Richard Salva--author of Soul Journey from Lincoln to Lindbergh [UNABRIDGED]

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