Silent spring / Rachel Carson ; introduction by Linda Lear ; afterword by Edward O. Wilson ; [drawings by Lois and Louis Darling].
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.Edition: 40th anniversary ed., 1st Mariner Books edDescription: xix, 378 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0618249060 (pbk.)
- 061825305X
- 363.738 CAR 21
- QH545.P4 C38 2002
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Non Fiction | MVS Library Main room-back corner | B- Nonfiction (Teen/Adult) | 363.738 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Nature Nook | 4008764 |
"A Mariner book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-355) and index.
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.
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