Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

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Rachel Carson's exposure of the effects of the indiscriminate use of chemicals which describes how pesticides and insecticides are applied almost universally to farms, forests, gardens and homes with scant regard to the contamination of the environment and the destruction of wildlife. She argues that unless we recognize that human beings are only a part of the living world, our progressive poisoning of the planet will end in catastrophe.
  • ISBN10 0395683297
  • ISBN13 9780395683293
  • Publish Date 22 September 1994 (first published 1 February 1977)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 19 October 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin
  • Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
  • Format Paperback
  • Language English