Summary
Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement, began work on her seminal book 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. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that... Full description
- 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
- Silent Spring
- Dorothy
- The Enduring Sea
- Earth on Fire
- Collateral Damage
- High Tides and Low.