The Resource On a farther shore : the life and legacy of Rachel Carson, William Souder
On a farther shore : the life and legacy of Rachel Carson, William Souder
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- Summary
- Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement. She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The sea around us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that this unassuming biologist transformed our relationship with the natural world. Rachel Carson began work on Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT, whose inventor had won a Nobel Prize for its discovery. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral damage to fish, birds, and other wildlife. Silent Spring was a chilling indictment of DDT and its effects, which were lasting, widespread, and lethal. Published in 1962, Silent Spring shocked the public and forced the government to take action-despite a withering attack on Carson from the chemicals industry. The book awakened the world to the heedless contamination of the environment and eventually led to the establishment of the EPA and to the banning of DDT and a host of related pesticides. By drawing frightening parallels between dangerous chemicals and the then-pervasive fallout from nuclear testing, Carson opened a fault line between the gentle ideal of conservation and the more urgent new concept of environmentalism
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 496 p., [8] p. of plates
- Contents
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- Part One. Water World
- Miss Carson's Book
- Bright as the Mid-day Sun
- Biologizing
- The English Connection and the Ocean Deep
- This Beautiful and Sublime World
- Author Triumphant
- Part Two. Silent Spring
- Dorothy
- The Enduring Sea
- Earth on Fire
- Collateral Damage
- High Tides and Low
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780307462206
- Label
- On a farther shore : the life and legacy of Rachel Carson
- Title
- On a farther shore
- Title remainder
- the life and legacy of Rachel Carson
- Statement of responsibility
- William Souder
- Subject
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- Environmentalists -- United States -- Biography
- Naturalists -- United States -- Biography
- Nonfiction
- truePesticides
- Pesticides -- Environmental aspects
- Pesticides -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- History
- trueScience writers
- Science writers -- United States -- Biography
- trueWomen environmentalists
- trueWomen environmentalists -- United States -- Biography
- trueWomen naturalists
- trueWomen naturalists -- United States -- Biography
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 -- Influence
- trueEnvironmental ethics
- Environmental ethics -- United States -- History
- trueEnvironmentalism
- Environmentalism -- United States -- History
- trueEnvironmentalists
- trueMarine biologists
- Marine biologists -- United States -- Biography
- trueNaturalists
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement. She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The sea around us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that this unassuming biologist transformed our relationship with the natural world. Rachel Carson began work on Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT, whose inventor had won a Nobel Prize for its discovery. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral damage to fish, birds, and other wildlife. Silent Spring was a chilling indictment of DDT and its effects, which were lasting, widespread, and lethal. Published in 1962, Silent Spring shocked the public and forced the government to take action-despite a withering attack on Carson from the chemicals industry. The book awakened the world to the heedless contamination of the environment and eventually led to the establishment of the EPA and to the banning of DDT and a host of related pesticides. By drawing frightening parallels between dangerous chemicals and the then-pervasive fallout from nuclear testing, Carson opened a fault line between the gentle ideal of conservation and the more urgent new concept of environmentalism
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2012.
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10144312
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Souder, William
- Dewey number
- 570.9
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Carson, Rachel
- Carson, Rachel
- Carson, Rachel
- Marine biologists
- Naturalists
- Environmentalists
- Science writers
- Pesticides
- Environmentalism
- Environmental ethics
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the life and legacy of Rachel Carson
- Label
- On a farther shore : the life and legacy of Rachel Carson, William Souder
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Part One. Water World -- Miss Carson's Book -- Bright as the Mid-day Sun -- Biologizing -- The English Connection and the Ocean Deep -- This Beautiful and Sublime World -- Author Triumphant -- Part Two. Silent Spring -- Dorothy -- The Enduring Sea -- Earth on Fire -- Collateral Damage -- High Tides and Low -- Epilogue
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 496 p., [8] p. of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780307462206
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2012003077
- Other physical details
- ill., ports.
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) a757181
- (OCoLC)769424501
- Label
- On a farther shore : the life and legacy of Rachel Carson, William Souder
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Part One. Water World -- Miss Carson's Book -- Bright as the Mid-day Sun -- Biologizing -- The English Connection and the Ocean Deep -- This Beautiful and Sublime World -- Author Triumphant -- Part Two. Silent Spring -- Dorothy -- The Enduring Sea -- Earth on Fire -- Collateral Damage -- High Tides and Low -- Epilogue
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 496 p., [8] p. of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780307462206
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2012003077
- Other physical details
- ill., ports.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) a757181
- (OCoLC)769424501
Subject
- Environmentalists -- United States -- Biography
- Naturalists -- United States -- Biography
- Nonfiction
- truePesticides
- Pesticides -- Environmental aspects
- Pesticides -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- History
- trueScience writers
- Science writers -- United States -- Biography
- trueWomen environmentalists
- trueWomen environmentalists -- United States -- Biography
- trueWomen naturalists
- trueWomen naturalists -- United States -- Biography
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 -- Influence
- trueEnvironmental ethics
- Environmental ethics -- United States -- History
- trueEnvironmentalism
- Environmentalism -- United States -- History
- trueEnvironmentalists
- trueMarine biologists
- Marine biologists -- United States -- Biography
- trueNaturalists
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