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The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 743 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before her landmark 1962 book Silent Spring, Carson was the author of celebrated books about the world's oceans. Now collected in the deluxe volume, the three works offer an intimate account of the intricacies of maritime ecology. Carson displays an abiding reverence for the ocean as a source of global climate and of life itself. The volume includes an introduction, a detailed chronology and photographs of Carson's life and career, and helpful notes....
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English
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THE CLASSIC THAT LAUNCHED THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
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"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.
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English
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National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller: Explore earth’s most precious, mysterious resource—the ocean—with the author of Silent Spring.
With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us became a cultural phenomenon when first published in 1951 and cemented Carson’s status as the preeminent natural history writer of her time. Her inspiring,...
With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us became a cultural phenomenon when first published in 1951 and cemented Carson’s status as the preeminent natural history writer of her time. Her inspiring,...
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English
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This New York Times bestseller by the author of the environmental classic Silent Spring beautifully details the coastal ecosystem of birds and the sea.
In her first book, preeminent nature writer Rachel Carson tells the story of the sea creatures and birds that dwell in and around the waters along North America’s eastern coast—and the delicately balanced ecosystem that sustains them. Following the life...
In her first book, preeminent nature writer Rachel Carson tells the story of the sea creatures and birds that dwell in and around the waters along North America’s eastern coast—and the delicately balanced ecosystem that sustains them. Following the life...
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English
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From the National Book Award–winning author of Silent Spring: An exploration of marine life that takes us into “a truly extraordinary world” (The Atlantic Monthly).
Known for “catching the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry,” nature writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson is an icon of environmentalism, and her first love was the sea (Time). In this book, she explores...
Known for “catching the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry,” nature writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson is an icon of environmentalism, and her first love was the sea (Time). In this book, she explores...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Retells the story of Rachel Carson, a pioneering environmentalist who wrote and published "Silent Spring, " the revolutionary book pointing out the dangerous effects of chemicals on the living world.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
496 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement, began work on her seminal book Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral...
12) Rachel Carson
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Publisher
Ungar Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1983]
Physical Desc
xiv, 161 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
viii, 213 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book, Silent Spring, alerted the public to the possibility of dangerous long-range effects of pesticides.
18) Rachel Carson
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the biologist whose writings helped initiate the environmental movement.
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