Silent Spring
Book Details
| Title: | Silent Spring | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1962 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Company | ||||||||||
| Tags: | non-fiction, science, chemistry, environment, Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time | ||||||||||
| Description: | Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is an environmental science book documenting the detrimental effects of pesticide aerial spraying on the environment and the long-term effects on animal and human health. Its publication led to a U.S. ban on DDT and inspired an environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 7,866 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 319  |
Author Bio for Carson, Rachel
Rachel Carson, writer, scientist, and ecologist, grew up simply in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.
She was hired by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries to write radio scripts during the Depression and supplemented her income writing feature articles on natural history for the Baltimore Sun. She began a fifteen-year career in the federal service as a scientist and editor in 1936 and rose to become Editor-in-Chief of all publications for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. ...
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