At several points in her enthralling new book, “The Sound of the Sea,” Cynthia Barnett warmly recalls her memories of shelling on Sanibel, the Florida island long a mecca for seashell collectors. It’s ...

In “The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans,” Cynthia Barnett presents us with a glittering Wunderkammer for our age, a staggeringly varied history — scientific, cultural, ...

Cynthia Barnett investigates shells and the way people around the world have regarded them in her fascinating scientific and cultural history, "The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the ...

Award-winning author and journalist Cynthia Barnett will present a program at the Bay County Public Library on May 27th about her book, "The Sound of the Sea—Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans." ...

Amateur conchologists (aka shell collectors) who have walked Sanibel Island’s beaches bent at the waist in the classic “Sanibel Stoop” may think of seashells as the pretty trinkets we collect on ...

If you have ever held a shell in your hand, a Horse Conch, a yellow Prickly Cockle, even a dainty lavender periwinkle, you surely felt a sense of wonder at these fluted or spiraling, shining things.

My 13-year-old son, Sean, and I went kayaking on Morro Bay on a hazy and windless day. On that morning you could hear many different sounds traveling across the bay: the laughter of people on Morro ...

IMAGES OF TRUTH (310 pp.)—Glenway Wescott—Harper & Row ($6). Like the pre-Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter, Novelist Glenway Wescott is a somewhat melancholy yet tantalizing literary figure. His ...

For me, there’s no more resonant image from a Florida childhood than this: You’re on a bright beach, sun blazing, clouds so big they must surely be the home of the gods. The roar of the waves ...