Gift from the Sea: An Answer to the Conflicts in Our Lives by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Gift from the Sea:  An Answer to the Conflicts in Our Lives by Anne Morrow Lindbergh is a 128-page hardcover published by Pantheon, 1955.  The dust jacket has some small chips and tears along the edge and spine.  Inside, there is tanning inside the endpapers and pastedown and on the end pages but the rest of the book is clean and unmarked and the binding is tight. Book Summary This is Anne Morrow Lindbergh's first book in eleven years.  Her reflections on a women's life were matured in these active years of family living and stimulated by conversations with men and women who experience the same problems and feel the same need for assessing the true values of life. The setting of the book is the sea shore; the time, a brief vacation which had lifted her from the distractions of everyday existence into the sphere of meditation.  As the sea tosses up its gifts--shells rare and perfect--so the mind, left to its ponderings, brings up its own treasures of the deep.  And the shells become sy