Silent Spring (edit title)

Ulrich edited the books like this book of Silent Spring Sunday, November 15 2009.

• Added Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to combine 26 books, including Silent Spring, Saturday, November 14 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to change the title of Silent Spring Saturday, November 14 2009.

Ulrich changed the title of Silent Spring Saturday, November 14 2009.

Ulrich submitted a request to combine 26 books, including Silent Spring, Saturday, November 14 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Silent Spring Friday, July 31 2009.

• First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . <It is> well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time"s 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson"s watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson"s courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Silent Spring Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Rachel Carson: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Silent Spring Friday, July 17 2009.

• THERE WAS ONCE a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings.