Research Catalog

Title

Silent spring / Rachel Carson ; introduction by Linda Lear ; afterword by Edward O. Wilson ; [drawings by Lois and Louis Darling].

Author

Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964

Publication

Boston : Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Company, [2002]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilson, Edward O.
• Lear, Linda J., 1940-
• Darling, Lois
• Darling, Louis

Description

xix, 378 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

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 ... [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 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"--Publisher's description

Subject

• Pesticides Environmental aspects
• Pesticides Toxicology
• Pesticides and wildlife
• Insect pests Biological control
• Environmental health
• Insect pests > Control
• Pesticides
• Nature > Protection
• Environmental Health
• Insect Control
• Pesticides > Aspect de l'environnement
• Pesticides > Toxicologie
• Pesticides et faune
• Insectes nuisibles > Lutte biologique contre
• Hygiène du milieu
• Insectes nuisibles > Lutte contre
• Pesticides
• pesticide
• Pflanzenschutzmittel
• Sozialökologie
• Umweltbelastung
• Umweltverschmutzung
• Umweltrisiko
• Écologie
• Nature > Protection
• Pollution > Lutte contre > Appareils et matériel
• Résistance aux insecticides
• Pesticides > Environmental aspects
• Pesticides and wildlife

Note

• "The classic that launched the environmental movement"--Cover
• Various printings list an anniversary on cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-355) and index.

Audience (note)

• Young Adult.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 061825305X
• 9780618253050
• 0618249060
• 9780618249060

LCCN

• 2002726803
• 9780618253050

OCLC

• 50751491
• SCSB-10009932

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library