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Genre/Form: | Festschriften Nonfiction |
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Named Person: | Rachel Carson; Rachel Carson; Rachel Carson |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Matthiessen |
ISBN: | 9780618872763 0618872760 |
OCLC Number: | 77522749 |
Notes: | "A Mariner original." |
Description: | 208 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Introduction / Peter Matthiessen -- Love, fear, and witnessing / Linda Lear -- On Silent spring / Edward O. Wilson -- Rachel Carson in The highest tide / Jim Lynch -- Silent spring : a father-daughter dance / Sandra Steingraber -- Rachel Carson and Silent spring / Al Gore -- Withered sedge and yellow wood : poetry in Silent spring / John Elder -- A long view of Rachel Carson / John Hay -- Changing sex / Janisse Ray -- The moral courage of Rachel Carson / Terry Tempest Williams -- Silent future : Rachel Carson and the creeping apocalypse / Freeman House -- Always a naturalist / Robert Michael Pyle -- Remembrance of life / Linda Lear. |
Responsibility: | edited by Peter Matthiessen. |
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Abstract:
Honoring the centennial of the birth of the pioneering naturalist, a compilation of essays celebrates Carson's contributions to the birth of the environmental movement, in a collection that features works by Al Gore, John Hay, and Linda Lear.
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