05093cam a2200781 4500 530199726 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307462220 0307462226 B007MGSNQI Amazon dd07ec06-04ac-4808-9977-3df114041f92 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 170448 170448 170448 800130 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Souder, William. On a Farther Shore [Libby] : The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring. Crown, 2012. politics. epa. Biography. environmental movement. Nature. Environmentalism. autobiographies. Environmental science. Environmental History. Science. ddt. Autobiography. Memoirs. women. Wildlife conservation. feminism. Environment. biographies. Ecology. Wildlife. Silent Spring. Sustainability. biographies and memoirs. political books. books for women. science books. nature books. inspirational books for women. biographies of famous people. biographies of famous women. biographies of women. rachel carson biography. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2256kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Nature. Nonfiction. HTML:Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that this unassuming biologist transformed our relationship with the natural world. Rachel Carson began work on Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT, whose inventor had won a Nobel Prize for its discovery. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral damage to fish, birds, and other wildlife. Silent Spring was a chilling indictment of DDT and its effects, which were lasting, widespread, and lethal. Published in 1962, Silent Spring shocked the public and forced the government to take action-despite a withering attack on Carson from the chemicals industry. The book awakened the world to the heedless contamination of the environment and eventually led to the establishment of the EPA and to the banning of DDT and a host of related pesticides. By drawing frightening parallels between dangerous chemicals and the then-pervasive fallout from nuclear testing, Carson opened a fault line between the gentle ideal of conservation and the more urgent new concept of environmentalism. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, On a Farther Shore reveals a shy yet passionate woman more at home in the natural world than in the literary one that embraced her. William Souder also writes sensitively of Carson's romantic friendship with Dorothy Freeman, and of her death from cancer in 1964. This extraordinary new biography captures the essence of one of the great reformers of the twentieth century.. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/DD0/7EC/06/OnaFartherShoreTheLifeandLegacyofRach9780307462220.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DD07EC06-04AC-4808-9977-3DF114041F92&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/DD0/7EC/06/OnaFartherShoreTheLifeandLegacyofRach9780307462220.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DD07EC06-04AC-4808-9977-3DF114041F92&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/DD0/7EC/06/OnaFartherShoreTheLifeandLegacyofRach9780307462220.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DD07EC06-04AC-4808-9977-3DF114041F92&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)