Gentle Subversive Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement

Name: Gentle Subversive Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
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ISBN: 9780195172478

ISBN-10: 0195172477

ISBN-13: 9780195172478

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mark Hamilton Lytle

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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact biography of Carson, illuminating the road that lead to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision. We follow Carson from her childhood on a farm outside Pittsburgh, where she first developed her love of nature (and where, at age eleven, she…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.69" wide x 4.69" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.484