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Silent Spring: Rachel Carson (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback – 28 Sept. 2000
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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
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, 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.
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.
- Print length336 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date28 Sept. 2000
- Dimensions12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-100141184949
- ISBN-13978-0141184944
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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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- 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
- Best Sellers Rank: 6,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 14 in Ecological Pollution
- 43 in Environmental Conservation
- 43 in Environment (Books)
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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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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.
By Rosajo on 23 April 2019
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.
In other words, they do anything they can to stop any interference in their drive for profit. Capitalism (bureaucratic state capitalism in the case of China) always puts profit before people and planet.









