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Courage for the Earth : writers, scientists, and activists celebrate the life and writing of Rachel Carson
- Title
- Courage for the Earth : writers, scientists, and activists celebrate the life and writing of Rachel Carson / edited by Peter Matthiessen.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
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- Publisher description
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- Additional Authors
- Matthiessen, Peter.
- Description
- 208 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "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 to action."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Note
- "A Mariner original."
- Bibliography (note)
- "Rachel Carson bibliography: p. 203-208.
- Contents
- Love, fear, and witnessing / Linda Lear -- On Silent spring / Edward O. Wilson -- Rachel Carson in The highest tide / Jim Lynch -- Silent spring : a father-daughter dance / Sandra Steingraber -- Rachel Carson and Silent spring / Al Gore -- Withered sedge and yellow wood : poetry in Silent spring / John Elder -- A long view of Rachel Carson / John Hay -- Changing sex / Janisse Ray -- The moral courage of Rachel Carson / Terry Tempest Williams -- Silent future : Rachel Carson and the creeping apocalypse / Freeman House -- Always a naturalist / Robert Michael Pyle -- Remembrance of life / Linda Lear.
- ISBN
- 9780618872763
- 0618872760
- LCCN
- 2006103363
- OCLC
- OCM77522749
- 77522749
- SCSB-5331057
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries