Rachel Carson
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Library of America volume 352
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The pioneering naturalist's works exploring the Earth's oceans.--
Before her landmark 1962 book Silent Spring, Carson was the author of celebrated books about the world's oceans. Now collected in the deluxe volume, the three works offer an intimate account of the intricacies of maritime ecology. Carson displays an abiding reverence for the ocean as a source of global climate and of life itself. The volume includes an introduction, a detailed chronology...
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Library of America volume 307
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Silent spring, together with rare letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the personal courage and passionate commitment of Rachel Carson.
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"In her clear and lyrical prose, Rachel Carson describes the different kinds of clouds--cirrus, cumulus, stratus--and the patterns and paths they follow through the sky, bringing rain and snow and swelling streams that flow to rivers and on to the sea in an endless cycle. This long-forgotten piece by Carson is published in its entirety for the first time."--
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"Here is a trove of Carson writing never before published or collected, uncovered by Linda Lear, author of the recent and acclaimed Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. Included are examples of her early and often remarkable nature writing for newspapers and for the Fish and Wildlife Service; journal observations on shore life; letters, including the "Lost Woods" correspondence concerning her efforts to save land in her beloved Maine, and another, written...
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When pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, the backlash from her critics thrust her into the center of a political maelstrom. Despite her love of privacy, Carson's convictions and her foresight regarding the risks posed by chemical pesticides forced her into a very public and controversial role. An intimate and poignant reflection of Carson's life as she emerges as America's most successful advocate for the natural...