Silent SpringFirst 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 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 ofSilent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964. |
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User Review - larryerick - LibraryThingGiven my interests and the timing of this book being published, one would think I would have read this book decades ago. It was certainly well known already when I was deep into my higher education ... Read full review
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User Review - SonoranDreamer - LibraryThingReading this book so long after it was published makes clear that we have won little in the battle against the poisoning of the world. I come away from this book realizing that we need a new strategy in order to stop the living world from being destroyed by corporations. Read full review
Contents
A FABLE FOR TOMORROW | 1 |
THE OBLIGATION TO ENDURE | 5 |
ELIXIRS OF DEATH | 15 |
SURFACE WATERS AND UNDERGROUND SEAS | 39 |
REALMS OF THE SOIL | 53 |
EARTHS GREEN MANTLE | 63 |
NEEDLESS HAVOC | 85 |
AND NO BIRDS SING | 103 |
THE HUMAN PRICE | 187 |
THROUGH A NARROW WINDOW | 199 |
ONE IN EVERY FOUR | 219 |
NATURE FIGHTS BACK | 245 |
THE RUMBLINGS OF AN AVALANCHE | 262 |
THE OTHER ROAD | 277 |
List of Principal Sources | 301 |
Afterword | 357 |
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| Title | Silent Spring Edition 001 Series Mariner books |
| Author | Rachel Carson |
| Illustrated by | Edward O. Wilson |
| Contributors | Linda Lear, Edward O. Wilson |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, annotated |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0618249060, 9780618249060 |
| Length | 378 pages |
| Subjects | › Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection Science / Environmental Science |
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