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

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Main Author
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964
Related Names
Darling, Louis, illustrator.
Darling, Lois, illustrator.
Lear, Linda J., 1940-, writer of introduction.
Wilson, Edward O., writer of supplementary textual content.
Language(s)
English
Published
Boston : Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Company, [2002]
Edition
First Mariner books edition.
Subjects
Pesticides and wildlife.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects.
Résistance aux insecticides
Pollution > Lutte contre > Appareils et matériel.
Nature > Protection
Pesticides > Aspect de l'environnement.
Écologie
Umweltrisiko.
Umweltverschmutzung.
Umweltbelastung
Sozialökologie
Pflanzenschutzmittel
Pesticides > Toxicology
Pesticides > Environmental aspects
Pesticides and wildlife
Insect pests > Biological control
pesticide
Pesticides.
Insectes nuisibles > Lutte contre.
Hygiène du milieu.
Insectes nuisibles > Lutte biologique contre.
Pesticides et faune.
Pesticides > Toxicologie.
Pesticides > Aspect de l'environnement.
Pesticides
Insect Control
Environmental Health
Nature > Protection.
Pesticides
Insect pests > Control
Environmental health
Insect pests > Biological control
Pesticides and wildlife
Pesticides > Toxicology
Pesticides > Environmental aspects
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
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Various printings list an anniversary on cover.
"The classic that launched the environmental movement"--Cover
Young Adult.
Reading Counts RC
Accelerated Reader AR
Accelerated Reader
Physical Description
xix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780618249060
0618249060
9780618253050
061825305X
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