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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Silent Springby Rachel Carson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations....It is well crafted, fearless and succinct....Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964. Review:"Her book is a cry to the reading public to help curb private and public programs which by use of poisons will end by destroying life on earth....Miss Carson, with the fervor of an Ezekiel, is trying to save nature and mankind." The New York Times Synopsis:Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the government to ban DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson's book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century. Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-355) and index.
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments viii Introduction by Linda Lear x 1 a fable for tomorrow 1 2 the obligation to endure 5 3 elixirs of death 15 4 surface waters and underground seas 39 5 realms of the soil 53 6 earths green mantle 63 7 needless havoc 85 8 and no birds sing 103 9 rivers of death 129 10 indiscriminately from the skies 154 11 beyond the dreams of the borgias 173 12 the human price 187 13 through a narrow window 199 14 one in every four 219 15 nature fights back 245 16 the rumblings of an avalanche 262 17 the other road 277 List of Principal Sources 301 Afterword by Edward O. Wilson 357 Index 365
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