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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 570
EAN: 9780807085479
ISBN: 0807085472
Label: Beacon Press
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 267
Publication Date: September 15, 1999
Publisher: Beacon Press
Sales Rank: 372099
Studio: Beacon Press
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Edited and with an Introduction by Linda Lear
This trove of previously uncollected writings by the author of Silent Spring is a priceless addition to our knowledge of the great environmentalist and her life.
"[Carson's] writing still sparkles. . . . This book should be required reading."
-Bill Sharp, The New York Times Book Review
Amazon.com Review:
In her lifetime, Rachel Carson published only four books. She was a careful writer and meticulous researcher, for one thing, and she worked as a government scientist until the success of books like Silent Spring and The Sea Around Us enabled her to turn to her own writing full-time. She also published several magazine pieces, many of which biographer Linda Lear gathers here, along with letters and journal entries. In one piece that is characteristic both of her modesty and of her wit, Carson remarks on her then-unusual status of being an "average-sized woman" and a scientist, one who had just become "a biographer of the sea." In another, Carson writes of the necessity of protecting shorelines from economic development that would hasten their erosion and subsequent destruction. Carson's many fans will take much pleasure in this anthology of her work. --Gregory McNamee
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The book is a collection of Rachel Carson's discovered writing, but it isn't a simple collection of her essays. Thanks to the excellent editor, Linda Lear, all of the 31 essays are well organized in four parts, and each one begins with an editor's preamble that explains background, Carson's motivation, and other useful information for the specific essay. With those preambles and essays, I had a feeling as if I were reading Rachel Carson's biography as well. With her unique combination, a biologist ... Read More
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