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Silent spring

Carson, Rachel 1907-1964 (Author).

Summary: First published in 1962, this book alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides. The outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations ... 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 the author's watershed book with new essays by the author and scientist Edward O. Wilson and the acclaimed 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 1963, the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780618249060 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0618249060 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780618253050 (hardcover) :
  • ISBN: 061825305X (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: xix, 378 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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  • Edition: 40th anniversary ed., 1st Mariner Books ed.
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

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General Note:
"A Mariner book."
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-355) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: A fable for tomorrow -- The obligation to endure -- Elixirs of death -- Surface waters and underground seas -- Realms of the soil -- Earth's green mantle -- Needless havoc -- And no birds sing -- Rivers of death -- Indiscriminately from the skies -- Beyond the dreams of the Borgias -- The human price -- Through a narrow window -- One in every four -- Nature fights back -- The Rumblings of an avalanche -- The other road.

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Subject: Insect pests Biological control
Pesticides and wildlife
Pesticides Toxicology
Pesticides Environmental aspects

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Silent Spring


Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that. The outrcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the banning of DDT and spurred the revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson's passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. I tis without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.
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