Books About Rachel Carson
This list is not inclusive, but represents the most recent scholarship about Rachel
Carson. Your local bookstore, public library, college library, or on-line bookstore
will probably have these titles. All are in print and all are in paperback editions.
Adult Titles
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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
by Linda Lear. The definitive biography. Henry Holt & Co., 1997. Available on
audiotape and in large print editions.
New York, Oxford University Press (1941)
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Carson : Witness for Nature at Amazon.com |
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Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
edited and introduction by Linda Lear. Anthology of Carson's unpublished writings.
Boston, Beacon Press, 1998. Also available in large print editions.
Buy Lost
Woods at Amazon.com |
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The new 40th Anniversary Edition of Silent Spring with an new introduction
by Linda Lear and afterword by E.O. Wilson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.
See why Carson's analysis is more relevant than ever.
Buy Silent
Spring 40th Anniversary Edition at Amazon.com |
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Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964,
edited by Martha Freeman. Ten years of correspondence detailing an intimate relationship
between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman. Boston, Beacon Press, 1995
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Rachel at Amazon.com |
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And No Birds Sing. Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
Edited by Craig Waddell. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. A
collection of new and revised essays examining Carson's language in Silent Spring.
Buy And
No Birds Sing at Amazon.com (paperback)
Buy And
No Birds Sing at Amazon.com (hardcover) |
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Rachel Carson: The Writer at Work by Paul Brooks, (formerly published as
The House of Life, 1972) Sierra Books, 1998. Brooks was Carson's editor
and published this collection of Carson's Writing which for many years remained
the only source of information on Carson's life.
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Carson : The Writer at Work at Amazon.com |
Children's Titles
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Up Close: Rachel Carson by Ellen Levine Viking Juvenile Ages 9-12 $15.99
hard cover 2007.
Buy Rachel
Carson. Pioneer of Ecology at Amazon.com (book) |
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Sounding The Alarm,by Judith Harlan. Dillon Press, 1989 |
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Rachel Carson: The Wonder of Nature (Earth Keepers Series), by Catherine
Reef. Henry Holt and Co., 1992
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Rachel Carson. Pioneer of Ecology by Kathleen V. Kudlinski Illustrated by
Ted Lewin Puffin Book ages 7-11 $4.99 paperback 1988 .
This particular book I found very useful in the classroom and a Calif. teacher dev.
group provides worksheets for student use, journal writing, etc. These materials
could help celebrate the 40th anniv. of Silent Spring and Earth Day/Month/Year
Sincerely,
Martha F. Barkley,
retired Mont. Co., Md. elem teacher
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Carson. Pioneer of Ecology at Amazon.com (book) |
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Rachel Carson: Voice for the Earth, by Ginger Wadsworth. Lerner Publications,
1992 (also available on audiotape)
Buy Rachel
Carson : Voice for the Earth at Amazon.com (book)
Rachel
Carson : Voice for the Earth at Amazon.com (audiotape)
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