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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Baker and Taylor
EAN: 9780618249060
Edition: Anniversary
ISBN: 0618249060
Item Dimensions: 7882299566
Label: Houghton Mifflin Company
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
MPN: SISP855
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: October 22, 2002
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Studio: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.
In 2012 we invite you to join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of this great work.
Amazon.com Review:
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is now 35 years old. Written over the years 1958 to 1962, it took a hard look at the effects of insecticides and pesticides on songbird populations throughout the United States, whose declining numbers yielded the silence to which her title attests. "What happens in nature is not allowed to happen in the modern, chemical-drenched world," she writes, "where spraying destroys not only the insects but also their principal enemy, the birds. When later there is a resurgence of the insect population, as almost always happens, the birds are not there to keep their numbers in check." The publication of her impeccably reported text helped change that trend by setting off a wave of environmental legislation and galvanizing the nascent ecological movement. It is justly considered a classic, and it is well worth rereading today.
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