Rachel Carson

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Rachel

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Carson

Rachel Carson (19071964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the Bee Plumber 76: most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.

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Rachel Carson

Silent Spring & Other Environmental Writings

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Rachel Carson

Hardcover Book

The book that sparked the modern environmental movement, with an unprecedented collection of letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the extraordinary courage and vision of its author

$45.00 CAD

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Sense of Wonder

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Rachel Carson

Paperback Book

First published a half-century ago, Rachel Carson's award-winning The Sense of Wonder remains the classic guide to introducing children to the marvels of nature.

$23.99 CAD

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Silent Spring

By:

Rachel Carson

Paperback Book

The outcry following the publication of Silent Spring in 1962 forced the banning of DDT and spurred healthy changes in the laws affecting air, land, and water quality.