Lost Woods

A collection of excerpts from unpublished writings and speeches by the New York Times bestselling author of the Sea trilogy and the seminal Silent Spring

About the author

Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was an American marine biologist. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sea trilogy: The Sea Around Us (winner of the National Book Award and the John Burroughs Medal), Under the Sea-Wind and The Edge of the Sea; as well as the seminal Silent Spring. Her books have been credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

Summary

A collection of excerpts from unpublished writings and speeches by the New York Times bestselling author of the Sea trilogy and the seminal Silent Spring

Foreword

A collection of excerpts from unpublished writings and speeches by the New York Times bestselling author of the Sea trilogy and the seminal Silent Spring

Additional text

Much of what Carson wrote to great controversy is now conventional wisdom. To read Silent Spring now is in part to understand how we got to where we are

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Carson, Carson Rachel
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2022
• EAN: 9781786898920
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-892-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, Diaries, letters and journals