Rachel Carson: Silent Spring: 40th Anniversary Edition

Among the many honors and awards Carson received during her lifetime were the National Book Award, for The Sea Around Us (1951); a Guggenheim fellowship (1951–1952); the John Burroughs Medal (1952); the Henry G. Bryant Gold Medal (1952); the Women’s National Book Association Constance Lindsay Skinner Award (1963); the Conservationist of the Year Award from the National Wildlife Federation (1963); and a Gold Medal from the New York Zoological Society (1963).

Rachel Carson lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, until her untimely death.

In this new collection, edited by Peter Matthiessen, a host of brilliant contributors share their thoughts on Rachel Carson’s enduring legacy in the environmental movement. Contributors include Al Gore, John Hay, Freeman House, Linda Lear, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward O. Wilson, and others.

ISBN 13: 978-0-618-87276-3 / ISBN-10: 0-618-87276-0

“Rachel Carson was first and foremost a writer of considerable literary style whose true love was the sea.”

While Rachel Carson is best known for Silent Spring , she had a deep passion for life in the ocean. In pellucid, knowledgeable prose, she transforms seemingly simple plants and animals at the sea’s edge into complex and stunningly beautiful creatures deserving of our compassion, understanding, and finally, protection.

ISBN-13:978-0-395-92496-9 / ISBN-10: 0-395-92496-0

First Mariner Books edition 2002

Copyright © 1962 by Rachel L. Carson

Copyright © renewed 1990 by Roger Christie

Introduction copyright © 2002 by Linda Lear

Afterword copyright © 2002 by Edward O. Wilson

All rights reserved

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

ISBN 0-618-25305-x

ISBN 0-618-24906-0 (pbk.)

Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling

Portions of this book were first published as a series of articles in The New Yorker.

Printed in the United States of America

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