Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Fourth Printing 1962 Houghton Mifflin Nature Conservation naturalists book gifts
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This is a very good hardcover with an acceptable as present dust jacket. True Fourth Printing 1962 Houghton Mifflin NOT a Book club edition, original price of 5.00 appears inside front jacket flap. This copy is very good inside and out. The inside pages are very clean and still crisp. The binding is tight and straight. Green hardcover boards under jacket are also very good with only a hint of shelf wear. The accompanying dust jacket is acceptable as present and does have shelf wear including tearing as shown in photo. Octavo book size or 6" x 9" with 368 pages including index.
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson was originally published in 1962. The book exposed the harmful effects of pesticides, particularly DDT, on the environment and human health. The result sparked the modern environmental movement. It exposed how chemicals travel through food chains and can cause widespread ecological damage. Carson's courageous fight with the chemical companies was inspirational and led her to become a leading naturalist and environmental conservationist. The book was a follow-up to her exceptional sea trilogy, The Sea Around Us, The Edge of the Sea and Under the Sea Wind.
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