SILENT SPRING

CARSON, RACHEL.;.LEAR, LINDA INTRO.;.WILSON, EDWARD O. AFTERWORD

ISBN 10: 0618249060 / ISBN 13: 9780618249060

Published by Mariner Books.;.houghton mifflin harcourt 1962,2002, 1962

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GOOD+ Cond.some minimal pencil marginal notes ,otherwise quite nice; White titles on green paper covers. "50 Fiftieth Anniversary" circle cover blurb. THE CLASSIC THAT LAUNCHED THE ENFVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT" ; 378ps pages; Environmental Classic.book focused on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous than radiation and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SILENT SPRING
• Publisher: Mariner Books.;.houghton mifflin harcourt 1962,2002
• Publication Date: 1962
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618249060
• ISBN 13: 9780618249060
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Illustrated by Darling Drawings
• Edition: 50th Aniversary Edition.
• Condition: Good+

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Synopsis

THE CLASSIC THAT LAUNCHED THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT

“Rachel Carson is a pivotal figure of the twentieth century…people who thought one way before her essential 1962 book Silent Spring thought another way after it.”—Margaret Atwood

Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring did exactly that. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world. As Carson reminds us, "In nature, nothing exists alone.” 

The introduction by the acclaimed biographer Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature, tells the story of Carson’s courageous defense of her truths in the face of a ruthless assault form the chemical industry following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death.

“Wonder and humility are just some of the gifts of Silent Spring. They remind us that we, like all other living creatures, are part of the vast ecosystems of the earth of the earth…this is a book to relish: not for the dark side of human nature, but for the promise of life’s possibility.” —from the Introduction

About the Author

Rachel Carson (1907–1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.