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More imagesRachel Carson and Her Sisters (a collection of six signed books)
Musil, Robert; Rachel Carson (subject); Harriet Hardy; Terry Tempest Williams; Theo Colburn; Sandra Steingraber; Devra Davis (signed)
Published by Various, 2002
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near fine. Near fine. First edition. A collection of six signed books taking inspiration from Robert K. Musil'sRachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014.A fine/fine copy of that book is provided here inscribed:… "For Susan, Thanks for caring about learning + the environment. Robert Musil." Uncommon signed. Musil is an environmental writer, activist, and the president and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council. Also included are five books from notable 20th-century women environmentalist-authors that Musil profiles in the later half of the book and convincingly argues are in the lineage of Rachel Carson (listed chronologically): Hardy, Harriet L.Challenging Man-Made Disease.NY: Praeger, 1983. Inscribed in a shaky hand on the title page.Uncommon signed, with no other copies available as of this writing.Hardy was 77 at the time of the book's publication, and this memoir looks back at more than four decades of her important career. She is renown for her work in work-related health hazards and was a close colleague of Alice Hamilton who recruited her to be the co-author of their landmark textbookIndustrial Toxicology. She was faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health. A near fine book with a touch of rubbing to corners in a very good jacket with some wear to top edge and a few nicks and short tears to edges. Williams, Terry Tempest.Refuge: An Unnatural History.NY: Pantheon, 1991. Inscribed on the half-title page: "November 6, 1995, For you Patrick, Refuge, in the land, in each other, Blessings, Terry Tempest Williams."A modern classic of environmental writing and reportedly one of the all-time bestselling book of environmental writing of the 20th century. Carson describes her mother's decline and death from cancer alongside the water-level decline of the wildlife-rich Great Salt Lake. A fine copy in fine jacket. Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers.Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? -- A Scientific Detective Story.NY: Dutton, 1996. Inscribed movingly on the front free endpaper: "To Wren, It took a lot more than scientific research to make this book possible. Your encouragement, your love, and support have made this possible. -- I hope you can find some satisfaction for yourself personally in the results of this book. Thanks for always being there, Theo." A wonderful inscription, clearly a close association copy.Uncommon signed, with no other copies available online as of this writing.With a foreword by Al Gore, who opens with: "Last year I wrote a foreword to the thirtieth anniversary edition of Rachel Carson's classic work,Silent Spring. Little did I realize that I would so soon be writing a foreword to a book that is in many respects its sequel." This book chronicles "this insidious invasion [of chemicals], which is derailing sexual development and reproduction, not only in a host of animal populations but, it now appears, humans as well." Colborn is renown for her work studying endocrine disruptors; her story is wonderful as she was a "late bloomer," only earning her PhD in Zoology at 58 but going on to do accomplished work. She is the recipient of dozens of notable prizes. Robert Musil profiles Colborn but this book is co-written with scientist John Peterson Myers and environmental journalist Dianne Dumanoski. Steingraber, Sandra.Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment.NY: Addision-Wesley, 1997.Signed and dated 1998 on the title page and additionally inscribed (to no recipient): "With all best wishes, Sandra."Uncommon signed, with no other copies available online as of this writing.Her first book.A biologist, Steingraber survived cancer in her twenties and this book investigates the pathways of environmental contamination with the touch a poet through the lens of her own personal narrative.From the jacket: "Sandra Steingraber is . the first to trace with such compelling precision the entire web of connections between our bodies and the ecological world in which we eat, drink, breathe, and work."An oft-talked about work of contemporary environmental justice writing.A fine book in near fine jacket with a little rubbing. Davis, Devra Lee.When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution.NY: Basic Books, 2002. Inscribed on the title page: "For Danny, [illegible] & thanks for your wise and brave leadership. Devra Davis."Uncommon signed, with no other copies available online as of this writing.Davis is a renown epidemiologist and she likewise "confronts the public triumph and private failures of the public health community's long battle against environmental pollution" while writing about how environmental pollution has impacted her own family. A fine book in fine jacket. Musil devotes a chapter each to Tempest Williams, Colborn, Steingraber, and Dervis. Hardy is profiled in a chapter that also discusses Ellen Swallows Richards and Alice Hamilton. Each of these books is uncommon signed aside fromRefugewhich is sporadically available signed. A great collection ripe for additions based on further reading in Musil's book or beyond.
