Silent spring /
Carson, Rachel 1907-1964
Silent spring / Rachel Carson ; introduction by Linda Lear ; afterword by Edward O. Wilson ; [drawings by Lois and Louis Darling]. - 40th anniversary ed., 1st Mariner Books ed. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002. - xix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
"A Mariner book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-355) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction by Linda Lear x
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 by Edward O. Wilson 357
Index 365
This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with new essays by the author and scientist Edward O. Wilson and biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in 1963, the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death.
061825305X 9780618253050 0618249060 (pbk.) 9780618249060 (pbk.)
Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
Pesticides--Toxicology.
Pesticides and wildlife.
Insect pests--Biological control.
Plaguicidas --Aspectos ambientales
Plaguicidas --Toxicología
Control de insectos
Manejo de plaguicidas
QH 545 / C321s 2002
363.738/4
Silent spring / Rachel Carson ; introduction by Linda Lear ; afterword by Edward O. Wilson ; [drawings by Lois and Louis Darling]. - 40th anniversary ed., 1st Mariner Books ed. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002. - xix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
"A Mariner book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-355) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction by Linda Lear x
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 by Edward O. Wilson 357
Index 365
This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with new essays by the author and scientist Edward O. Wilson and biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in 1963, the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death.
061825305X 9780618253050 0618249060 (pbk.) 9780618249060 (pbk.)
Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
Pesticides--Toxicology.
Pesticides and wildlife.
Insect pests--Biological control.
Plaguicidas --Aspectos ambientales
Plaguicidas --Toxicología
Control de insectos
Manejo de plaguicidas
QH 545 / C321s 2002
363.738/4