Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature: Witness for Nature – A Definitive Biography: The Reluctant Reformer Whose Silent Spring Inspired the Environmental Movement - Softcover

Lear, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547238231 ISBN 13: 9780547238234

Verlag: Mariner Books, 2009

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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962, did more than any other single publication to alert the world to the hazards of environmental poisoning and to inspire a powerful social movement that would alter the course of American history. This definitive, sweeping biography shows the origins of Carson's fierce dedication to natural science--and tells the dramatic story of how Carson, already a famous nature writer, became a brillant if reluctant reformer. Drawing on unprecendented access to sources and interviews, Lear masterfully explores the roots of Carson's powerful connection to the natural world, crafting a " fine portrait of the environmentalist as a human being" (Smithsonian).

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Linda Lear is the editor of Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson. She was consultant to the PBS television documentary "The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson" for The American Experience, and is a founder of the Lear/Carson archive at Connecticut College. Her most recent book is Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature. She lives in Bethesda, MD.

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• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0547238231
• ISBN 13: 9780547238234
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 688
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