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Rachel Carson Witness for Nature

Paperback • 1998 • English

Rachel Carson Witness for Nature

By Linda Lear

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

By drawing on previously unavailable sources and on interviews with those who knew her, Linda Lear gives a compelling portrait of this heroic woman, illuminating the origin of her connection with nature and of her determination to save what she loved. Lear reveals the unexpected influence of Carson's early experience with industrial pollution and examines her life-changing encounter with the possibility of global extinction in the frightening days of the early Cold War. The book follows Carson's...Show more

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ISBN

9780805034288

Publisher

Macmillan

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

Rachel Carson Witness for Nature

Format

Paperback

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