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Silent Spring: Rachel Carson (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback – 28 Sept. 2000

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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a preface by World Wildlife Fund founder Julian Huxley, and an afterword by Carson's biographer Linda Lear.
Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Rachel Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement. It is thanks to this book, and the help of many environmentalists, that harmful pesticides such as DDT were banned from use in the US and countries around the world.

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Rachel Carson (1907-64) wanted to be a writer for as long as she could remember. Her first book, Under the Sea Wind, appeared in 1941. Silent Spring, which alerted the world to the dangers of the misuse of pesticides, was published in 1962. Carson's articles on natural history appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, Reader's Digest and Holiday. An ardent ecologist and preservationist, Carson warned against the dumping of atomic waste at sea and predicted global warming. The Edge of the Sea, which completed her biography of the sea, is also published in Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. Rachel Carson died of cancer at the age of 56.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; 1st edition (28 Sept. 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141184949
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141184944
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm
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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 bestselling 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.

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By Rosajo on 23 April 2019
This book arrived in perfect Condition, cover as shown which sometimes is not always the case.
I'm a few chapters in and it strikes me as a book that might be of benefit in second level science perhaps. Things you don't really think about sometimes strike you as you read.
The intro is beautiful and the writing style easy to follow and is almost poetic in parts.
I'm docking a star for the paper and print which at times becomes a tad blurry (could be my sight) in that way when it's a mass produced book on recycled paper with old school font, which irritates me ever so slightly.
Overall I'm happy with it.
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