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- English
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About This Book
The authoritative biography of the marine biologist and nature writer whose book Silent Spring inspired the global environmentalist movement. In a career that spanned from civil service to unlikely literary celebrity, Rachel Carson became one of the world's seminal leaders in conservation. The 1962 publication of her book Silent Spring was a watershed event that led to the banning of DDT and launched the modern environmental movement. Growing up in poverty on a tiny Allegheny River farm, Carson attended the Pennsylvania College for Women on a scholarship. There, she studied science and writing before taking a job with the newly emerging Fish and Wildlife Service. In this definitive biography, Linda Lear traces the evolution of Carson's private, professional, and public lives, from the origins of her dedication to natural science to her invaluable service as a brilliant, if reluctant, reformer. Drawing on unprecedented 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 ). "Impressively researched and eminently readable... Compelling, not just for Carson devotees but for anyone concerned about the environment." â People "[A] combination of meticulous scholarship and thoughtful, often poignant, writing." â Science "A sweeping, analytic, first-class biography of Rachel Carson." â Kirkus Reviews
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Frontispiece
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Sources for Illustrations
- Preface to the 2009 Edition
- Prologue
- âWild Creatures Are My Friendsâ
- âThe Vision Splendidâ
- âThe Decision for Scienceâ
- âSomething to Write Aboutâ
- âJust to Live by Writingâ
- âReturn to the Seaâ
- First Signature
- âSuch a Comfort to Meâ
- âA Subject Very Close to My Heartâ
- âKin This Be Me?â
- âAn Alice in Wonderland Characterâ
- âNothing Lives to Itselfâ
- âBetween the Tide Linesâ
- âOne Must Dream Greatlyâ
- âI Shall Rant a Little, Tooâ
- âThe Red Queenâ
- Second Signature
- âIf I Live to Be 90â
- âA Solemn Obligationâ
- âRumblings of an Avalancheâ
- âI Shall Remember the Monarchsâ
- Afterword
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author