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Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing ofRachel Carson
Houghton Mifflin
May 2007
On Sale: April 22, 2007
224 pages
ISBN: 0618872760
EAN: 9780618872763
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Non-Fiction
Rachel Carson’s lyrical, popular books about the sea,
including her
best-selling The Sea Around Us,“set a standard for nature
writing for
all time to come” (Roger Caras). By the late 1950s, Carson
was the most
respected science writer in America. She completed Silent
Spring (1962)
against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a
powerful social
movement that has altered the course of history. In Silent
Spring,Carson asserted that “the right of the citizen to be
secure in
his own home against the intrusion of poisons applied by
other persons”
must surely be a basic human right. She was the first to
challenge the
moral vacuity of a government that refused to take
responsibility for
or to acknowledge evidence of environmental damage. In this
volume,
today’s foremost scientists and writers give compelling
evidence that
Carson’s transformative insights—her courage for the earth—
are giving
a new generation of activists the inspiration they need to move
consumers, industry, and government. The classic that
launched the
environmental movement.
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