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"Her book is a cry to the reading public to help curb private and public programs which by use of poisons will end by destroying life on earth. ... Miss Carson, with the fervor of an Ezekiel, is trying to save nature and mankind ..."
Mariner Books
October 2002
400 pages
ISBN: 0618249060
Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
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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