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9780791072448

Rachel Carson: Author/Ecologist

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791072448

  • ISBN10:

    0791072444

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-02-01
  • Publisher: Facts on File
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Summary

A biography of the biologist who helped initiate the environmental movement.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6(6)
Jill Sideman
A Voice in the Silence
12(10)
A Child's World Is Full of Wonder: 1907--1925
22(14)
Where Poetry Meets the Sea: 1925--1935
36(14)
The Dance of Science and Art: 1935--1941
50(14)
This Little Book I've Made for You: 1941--1952
64(14)
The Edge of the Sea: 1952--1957
78(12)
More Determined Than Ever: 1957--1960
90(8)
And No Birds Sing
98(8)
Chronology 106(2)
Bibliography 108(1)
Works 109(1)
Rachel Carson
Further Reading 110(2)
Index 112

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Excerpts

Rachel Carson is called the mother of the modern ecological movement, bringing the importance of environmental conservation to the public's attention. She redefined attitudes toward the use of pesticides with the publication of her masterpiece, Silent Spring. Learn more about Carson, who also helped bring about legislation that ended indiscriminate use of toxic chemicals in the wild.

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