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.
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
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This 50th Anniversary Edition of Silent Spring includes a new introduction
by Linda Lear and afterword by E.O. Wilson. See why Carson's analysis is more relevant
now than ever.
Buy Silent Spring at Amazon.com
This book is available on Kindle.
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Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
Silent Spring Revisited
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Conor Mark Jameson
American scientist and author Rachel Carson is said to have sparked the modern day
environmental movement with the publication of Silent Spring in 1962. She made vivid
the prospect of life without birdsong. But has her warning been heeded? Fifty years
on, Conor Mark Jameson reflects on the growth of environmentalism since Silent Spring
was published. His revealing and engaging tale plots milestone events in conservation,
popular culture and political history in the British Isles and beyond, tracing a
path through the half century since 'zero hour', 1962. Around this he weaves his
own observations and touching personal experiences, seeking to answer the question:
what happened to the birds, and birdsong, and why does it matter?
Buy Silent Spring Revisited at Amazon.com
This book is available on Kindle.
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The Gentle Subversive (New Narratives in American History)
Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and
Writing ofRachel Carson
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Editor: Peter Matthiessen
Rachel Carson is remembered as a hero for raising the alarm over ocean pollution
and pesticides, and she is cherished for the sheer beauty of her writing. In introducing
this thoughtful tribute to Carson marking the centennial of her birth, Matthiessen
writes with stirring insight into Carson's spirit and achievements, setting the
tone for the dozen affecting essays that follow. Biographer Linda Lear attests to
Carson's "literary genius" and profound sense of responsibility.
Buy Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate
the Life and Writing ofRachel Carson at Amazon.com
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Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge (S U N Y Series in Environmental Philosophy
and Ethics)
Rachel Carson: The Writer at Work
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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.
Buy Rachel Carson: The Writer at Work at Amazon.com
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And No Birds Sing. Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.