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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781664470736
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ISBN: 9781664578562
| Runtime: | 10.64 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Nature |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
First published in 1962, Silent Spring can single-handedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising awareness of humankind’s collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution.
Spring is here, but something is wrong. A white, powdery residue covers the trees, fields, and houses—and an eerie silence frightens the people. No birds are singing. From her evocative and deeply troubling opening, scientist and pioneering environmental activist Rachel Carson begins a detailed account of the development of military biocides and their derivative cousins: our common pesticides and herbicides. The palpable threat to public health posed by such notorious chemicals as DDT becomes even more shocking in light of the many politicians and industrialists who crusaded to suppress Carson.
No other book has so strongly influenced the environmental conscience of Americans and the world at large.
Author
Author Bio: Rachel L. Carson
Rachel L. Carson (1907–1964) earned a graduate degree in zoology from Johns Hopkins in 1932, in an era when few women went to college. She was the first woman to pass the civil service exam and went on to work with the Fish and Wildlife Service, where she became chief editor of publications. Her gift for writing about technical science in clear, poetic prose eventually led to a full time writing career, culminating with her controversial Silent Spring, one of the most influential books of the century. She is often called the mother of the modern environmental movement. Two years after Silent Spring was published she died of cancer, possibly due to the very pesticides she warned against in her book.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Nature |
| Runtime: | 10.64 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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