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Uses the life and migrations of Scomber the mackerel and Anguilla the eel to depict marine ecology along the Atlantic shore
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RACHEL CARSON (1907-1964) earned a graduate degree in zoology from John Hopkins in 1932, in an era when few women went to college. She was the first woman to pass the civil-service exam and went on to work with the Fish and Wildlife Service, where she became chief editor of publications. Her gift for writing about technical science in clear, poetic prose eventually led to a full-time writing career, culminating with her controversial Silent Spring, one of the most influential books of the century. She is often called the mother of the modern environmental movement. Two years after Silent Spring was published she died of cancer, possibly due to the very pesticides she warned against in her book.
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''Rachel Carson was one of the reasons why I became so conscious of the environment and so involved with environmental issues. . . . Her picture hangs on my office wall among those of political leaders, presidents, and prime ministers. It has been there for years-and it belongs there. Carson has had as much or more an effect on me than any of them, and perhaps all of them together.'' --Al Gore
''Rachel Carson was a wondrous thing that happened to us in the twentieth century...She set a standard for nature writing for all time to come.'' --Roger Caras, wildlife photographer, writer, and television personality
''Carson knows the names of species, calls parts of animals by their correct names, and brings behaviors as vividly to life as would a video sequence . . . Hébert draws listeners into the natural world with accurately produced animal sounds and a clear sense of wonder.'' --Kliatt
''Carson's peaceful prose is masterfully read in [Narrator]Hebert's velvet voice.'' --Booklist
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- PublisherDutton Adult
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0525249710
- ISBN 13 9780525249719
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages304
- IllustratorBob Hines
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