The gentle subversive : Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement /

Lytle, Mark H.

The gentle subversive : Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement / Mark Hamilton Lytle. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - x, 277 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - New narratives in American history .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-261) and index.

Spring -- Sense of wonder: Under the Sea-Wind -- Summer -- Florescence: The Sea Around Us -- Fall - The fullness of life: From The Edge of the Sea to DDT -- Winter -- The poison book and the dark season of vindication -- Epilogue Rachel Carson: the legacy.

0195172477 : PAP $17.95 9780195172478

Oxford Univ Pr, 2001 Evans rd, Cary, NC, USA, 27513 SAN 202-5892

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Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.


Biologists--United States--Biography.
Environmentalists--United States--Biography.
Science writers--United States--Biography.

QH31.C33 / L98 2007

570.92