Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Other Environmental Writings Av Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics edition...

Carson's 1962 work Silent Spring was one of the first books ever to highlight environmentalist issues.

<i>The Sea Around Us </i>is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only she can, to take us from the creation...

<b>In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.</b><br><br><b>With the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fable, Rachel Carson reveals how man-made pesticides have destroyed...