Silent spring / Rachel Carson ; introduction by Linda Lear ; afterword by Edward O. Wilson ; [drawings by Lois and Louis Darling].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carson, Rachel Louise. 1907-1964.

Contributor:

Wilson, Edward O., writer of supplementary textual content.

Lear, Linda J., 1940- writer of introduction.

Darling, Lois, illustrator.

Darling, Louis, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pesticides--Toxicology.

Pesticides.

Wildlife conservation.

Insects, Injurious and beneficial--Biological control.

Insects, Injurious and beneficial.

Insect pests--Control--Biological control.

Insect pests.

Environmental health.

Insect pests--Control.

Environmental Health.

Pesticides--Environmental aspects.

Pesticides and wildlife.

Nature--Protection.

Insect Control.

pesticide.

Medical Subjects:

Environmental Health.

Insect Control.

Pesticides.

Physical Description:

378 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

40th anniversary ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002, ©1962.

Summary:

First Published 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 ... 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 new essays by the author and scientist Edward O. Wilson and the acclaimed 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 1963, the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death. 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.

Contents:

Fable for tomorrow

Obligation to endure

Elixirs of death

Surface waters and underground seas

Realms of the soil

Earth's green mantle

Needless havoc

And no birds sing

Rivers of death

Indiscriminately from the skies

Beyond the dreams of the borgias

Human price

Through a narrow window

One in every four

Nature fights back

Rumblings of an avalanche

Other road

List of principal sources

Afterword / Edward O. Wilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-355) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Jones Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

0618249060

9780618249060

061825305X

9780618253050

OCLC:

670285049

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