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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964. Silent spring. Boston : Houghton Mifflin ; Cambridge, Mass. : Riverside Press, 1962 (OCoLC)610204281 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rachel Carson; Lois Darling; Louis Darling |
| OCLC Number: | 561302 |
| Notes: | "First printing"-- T.p. verso. |
| Description: | x, 368 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | A fable for tomorrow -- The obligation to endure -- Elixirs of death -- Surface waters and underground seas -- Realms of the soil -- Earth's green mantle -- Needless havoc -- And no birds sing -- Rivers of death -- Indiscriminately from the skies -- Beyond the dreams of the Borgias -- The human price -- Through a narrow window -- One in every four -- Nature fights back -- Rumblings of an avalanche -- Other road. |
| Responsibility: | by Rachel Carson ; drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. |
Abstract:
"An important, controversial account...of the way in which man's use of poisons to control insect pests and unwanted vegetation is changing the balance of nature." Booklist.
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