Full name: Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

Author: Linda Lear Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, Science, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780547238234 0547238231

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962, did more than any other single publication to alert the world to the hazards of environmental poisoning and to inspire a powerful social movement that would alter the course of American history. This definitive, long-overdue biography shows how Carson, already a famous nature writer, became a reluctant reformer. It is a compelling portrait of the determined woman behind the publicly shy but brilliant scientist and writer. Similar books: Paul Newman by Shawn Levy Louisa May Alcott by Martha Saxton Alice James by Jean Strouse Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee Georgette Heyer by Jennifer Kloester Penelope Fitzgerald by Hermione Lee Uncle Mame by Eric Myers Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley Bravemouth by Pamela Stephenson Invisible Writer by Greg Johnson Mary Renault by David Sweetman Flannery by Brad Gooch May Sarton by Margot Peters Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster In Search of J.D. Salinger by Ian Hamilton The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Rocket Men by Robert Kurson Genius by James Gleick