Pub Date: October 22, 2002
Dewey: 363.7384
LCCN: 2002726803
Lexile Code: 1340
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 14 to UP
Physical Info: 1.10" H x 8.10" L x 5.40" W ( 0.75 lbs) 400 pages
Description: The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword by Carson biographer Linda Lear.
Brief description: Rachel Carson (1907-1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.
Review Quotes:
"Rachel Carson is a pivotal figure of the twentieth century...people who thought one way before her essential 1962 book Silent Spring thought another way after it." - Margaret Atwood
"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