Silent Spring
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Publisher:
Boston - Houghton Mifflin
Pages:
378
Edition:
40th anniversary ed, 1st Mariner Books ed
ISBN:
9780618253050, 9780618249060
Language:
English
Notes:
"A Mariner book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-355) and index
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-355) and index
Statement of responsibility:
Rachel Carson ; introduction by Linda Lear ; afterword by Edward O. Wilson ; [drawings by Lois and Louis Darling]
Physical description:
xix, 378 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
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Add a CommentI might try this book.
the book that first described the dangers of widespread use of pesticides, written with scientific accuracy and human emotion.
While a sixth printing, this issue dates from the mid-sixties. So it is bereft of claims of the book's impact, ala "An alarming portrait of man made devastation" or "The book that changed the world". So a publisher or reviewer does not tell the reader what to think; instead it is straight and unadorned. The reader is treated as intelligent, left to come to her/his own conclusion. Carson is surprisingly lyrical in some passages.
This book made be sad and scared the first time I read it many years ago. Rachel Carson was one of the first environmentalist who tried to make the rest of us understand how in danger our world is and how much damage had already been done to the ecosystem. Great read.