Silent Spring
by Carson, RachelEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-09-01
Publisher(s): Mariner Books
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Summary
Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the government to ban DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Instrumental in launching the environmental movement, Carson's book is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| A Fable for Tomorrow | p. 1 |
| The Obligation to Endure | p. 5 |
| Elixirs of Death | p. 15 |
| Surface Waters and Underground Seas | p. 39 |
| Realms of the Soil | p. 53 |
| Earth's Green Mantle | p. 63 |
| Needless Havoc | p. 85 |
| And No Birds Sing | p. 103 |
| Rivers of Death | p. 129 |
| Indiscriminately from the Skies | p. 154 |
| Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias | p. 173 |
| The Human Price | p. 187 |
| Through a Narrow Window | p. 199 |
| One in Every Four | p. 219 |
| Nature Fights Back | p. 245 |
| The Rumblings of an Avalanche | p. 262 |
| The Other Road | p. 277 |
| List of Principal Sources | p. 301 |
| Index | p. 357 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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