Books By Rachel Carson
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Silent Spring is also available as an audiobook.
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Under the Sea Wind, 1941 and re-printed.
by Rachel L. Carson
New York, Oxford University Press (1941)
Under the Sea-Wind presents a naturalist’s picture of ocean life. This book is her breathtaking canvas of the fierce, competitive struggle for life takes place along the shore, in the open sea, and along the sea bottom.
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The Sea Around Usby Rachel L. Carson
New York, Oxford University Press (1951)
The Sea Around Us is based on geographical evidence and is a study of the processes that formed the earth, the moon, and the oceans.
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The Edge of the Seaby Rachel Carson
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company (1955)
The Edge of the Sea is a practical guide to identifying the inhabitants of the sea and the marshes, tide pools, and shallows that border it – a world which mirrors the “spectacle of life in all its varied manifestations as it has appeared, evolved, died out.”
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Silent Springby Rachel Carson
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company (1962)
Silent Spring provided some of the first public evidence of how pesticides, used without proper control or knowledge, were poisoning our environment and had the potential to endanger our health.
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The Sense of Wonderby Rachel Carson
New York, Harper & Row (posthumous, 1965)
The Sense of Wonder, originally written as a 1950’s magazine article called “Help Your Child to Wonder” and photo-illustrated after her death, details Carson’s philosophy that adults need to nurture a child’s inborn sense of wonder about the natural world.