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September 27, 2012
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of SILENT SPRING, Rachel Carson’s classic plea that launched the environmental movement.  The book appeared in September of 1962 and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement.  It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of SILENT SPRING, Rachel Carson’s classic plea that launched the environmental movement. 

The book appeared in September of 1962 and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement.  It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.

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July 02, 2012
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openroadmedia: Rachel Carson’s Summer Reading List In her bestselling book The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson—author of Silent Spring and one of the most influential nature writers of the 20th century—included a list of “Outstanding Sea Prose” as suggestions for further reading. “These books are listed because each, in one way or another, captures the sea’s varied and always changing moods,” she wrote. “All are among my own favorite volumes.” Here is her list - all of them ideal for beach reading. Henry Beston’s The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod.  Joseph Conrad’s The Mirror of the Sea.  Richard Hughes’ In Hazard.  Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.  Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall’s Men Against the Sea. H.M. Tomlinson’s The Sea and the Jungle.

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Rachel Carson’s Summer Reading List

In her bestselling book The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson—author of Silent Spring and one of the most influential nature writers of the 20th century—included a list of “Outstanding Sea Prose” as suggestions for further reading. “These books are listed because each, in one way or another, captures the sea’s varied and always changing moods,” she wrote. “All are among my own favorite volumes.”

Here is her list - all of them ideal for beach reading.

Henry Beston’s The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod. 

Joseph Conrad’s The Mirror of the Sea. 

Richard Hughes’ In Hazard. 

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. 

Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall’s Men Against the Sea.

H.M. Tomlinson’s The Sea and the Jungle.

(via irisblasi)

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