Rachel Carson: A Biography

by Arlene R. Quaratiello and Arlene Rodda Quaratiello

Book Overview

Few people have had as great an impact on the modern environmental movement as has the great writer and scientist Rachel Carson. This readable and up-to-date biography traces the famous environmentalist's development as a writer from earliest childhood through the publication of her best-known work Silent Spring (1962). Although Carson is now remembered almost exclusively for Silent Spring, which exposed the dangers of pesticides,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313323887
• ISBN13: 9780313323881
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Amazing introduction to an amazing life and personality

Most readers will know of "Silent Spring", however, this biography from the Greenwood series, is an apt and well formulated summary of the epitomy of the cirumstances that created Rachel Carson's legacy. It is a quick read that provides cursory insight. My only criticism is that the intensity that is the persona of Rachel Carson comes off somewhat languid and apolitical, although this is understandable in the intent of composing a brief biography. Highly recommended to accompany any high school student's project on the history of environmentalism, or on the naturalist movement.