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Silent spring / by Rachel Carson ; drawings by Lois and Louis Darling.
LIBRA QH545.P4 C38 1962
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Van Pelt Library QH545.P4 C38 1962
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Van Pelt Library QH545.P4 C38 1962
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Van Pelt Library QH545.P4 C38 1962
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
- Pesticides.
- Pesticides--Toxicology.
- Pesticides and wildlife.
- Insect pests--Biological control.
- Insect pests.
- Beneficial insects--Biological control.
- Beneficial insects.
- Wildlife conservation.
- Environmental Health.
- Insect Control.
- Insect pests--Control.
- Medical Subjects:
- Environmental Health.
- Insect Control.
- Pesticides.
- Local Subjects:
- Wildlife conservation.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 368 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin ; Cambridge, Mass. : Riverside Press, 1962.
- Summary:
- "An important, controversial account ... of the way in which man's use of poisons to control insect pests and unwanted vegetation is changing the balance of nature." Booklist.
- Contents:
- A fable for tomorrow
- The 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
- The human price
- Through a narrow window
- One in every four
- Nature fights back
- Rumblings of an avalanche
- Other road.
- Notes:
- "First printing"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-355) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964. Silent spring.
- ISBN:
- 039516611X
- 9780395166116
- OCLC:
- 561302
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