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Genre/Form: | Dust jackets Endpapers Authors' inscriptions (Provenance) Association copies (Provenance) |
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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 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rachel Carson; Lois Darling; Louis Darling; Houghton Mifflin Company,; Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), |
ISBN: | 039516611X 9780395166116 0395683297 9780395683293 061825305X 9780618253050 0395075068 9780395075067 |
OCLC Number: | 561302 |
Description: | x pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 368 pages : illustrations ; 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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