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Silent Spring » (40th Anniversary Edition)

Book cover image of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Authors: Rachel Carson, Edward O. Wilson (Afterword), Edward Osborne Wilson (Afterword), Linda Lear
ISBN-13: 9780618249060, ISBN-10: 0618249060
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: October 2002
Edition: 40th Anniversary Edition

Author Biography: Rachel Carson

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 best-selling 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.

Book Synopsis

Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the government to ban DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson's book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.

Publishers Weekly

This new edition of Carson's classic features a new introduction by Vice President Al Gore. (Sept.)

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	A Fable for Tomorrow	1
2	The Obligation to Endure	5
3	Elixirs of Death	15
4	Surface Waters and Underground Seas	39
5	Realms of the Soil	53
6	Earth's Green Mantle	63
7	Needless Havoc	85
8	And No Birds Sing	103
9	Rivers of Death	129
10	Indiscriminately from the Skies	154
11	Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias	173
12	The Human Price	187
13	Through a Narrow Window	199
14	One in Every Four	219
15	Nature Fights Back	245
16	The Rumblings of an Avalanche	262
17	The Other Road	277
	List of Principal Sources	301
	Afterword	357
	Index	365