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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7384
EAN: 9780618249060
Format: Special Edition
ISBN: 0618249060
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: October 22, 2002
Publisher: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 2202
Studio: Mariner Books
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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.
Amazon.com Review:
Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shatteringlook at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmentalawareness that still exists. Rachel Carson's book focused on the poisons frominsecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use ofsprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to thefood source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous thanradiation and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed tochemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death. Presented withthorough documentation, the book opened more than a few eyes about thedangers of the modern world and stands today as a landmark work.
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