Silent spring
Rachel Carson (Author)
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."
Print Book, English, 2002
Fiftieth anniversary edition View all formats and editions
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2002
xix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9780618249060, 9780618253050, 0618249060, 061825305X
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Introduction
Fable for tomorrow
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
Human price
Through a narrow window
One in every four
Nature fights back
Rumblings of an avalanche
Other road
List of principal sources
Afterword / Edward O. Wilson