Books/Writings
  • Silent Spring
    (Available New and Used)
Rachel Carson
1907 – 1964
American

Environmentalist. She raised a battle cry against the use of farm pesticides in her 1962 book, Silent Spring. An earlier book, The Sea Around Us, had described the danger of contaminating the oceans.

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