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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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 ASMSU/Spartans.4.Spartans Textbook Mariner books |
| Author | Rachel Carson |
| Illustrated by | Edward O. Wilson, Louis Darling |
| Contributors | Linda J. Lear, Edward O. Wilson |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0618249060, 9780618249060 |
| Length | 378 pages |
| Subjects | › Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection |
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