Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson
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Publication Date: April 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
Binding: Perfect
Topics: CARSON, RACHEL, 1907-1964; PESTICIDES_ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
Description:
For environmentally critical times, Courage for the Earth is a centennial appreciation of Rachel Carson's brave life and transformative writing
Rachel Carson’s lyrical, popular books about the sea, including her best-selling The Sea Around Us, set a standard for nature writing. By the late 1950s, Carson was the most respected science writer in America.
She completed Silent Spring (1962) against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history. In Silent Spring, Carson asserted that “the right of the citizen to be secure in his own home against the intrusion of poisons applied by other persons” must surely be a basic human right. She was the first to challenge the moral vacuity of a government that refused to take responsibility for or to acknowledge evidence of environmental damage.
In this volume, today’s foremost scientists and writers give compelling evidence that Carson’s transformative insights — her courage for the earth — are giving a new generation of activists the inspiration they need to move consumers, industry, and government to action.
Contributors include John Elder, Al Gore, John Hay, Freeman House, Linda Lear, Robert Michael Pyle, Janisse Ray, Sandra Steingraber, Terry Tempest Williams, and E. O. Wilson
Synopsis:
"Courage for the Earth" is a centennial appreciation--for environmentally critical times--of Rachel Carson's brave life and transformative writing, from renowned authors, activists, and scientists.
About the Author
PETER MATTHIESSEN’s many books include The Snow Leopard and At Play in the Fields of the Lord. He lives in Sagaponack, New York.
Table of Contents
Contents
1 Peter Matthiessen Introduction
19 Linda Lear Love, Fear, and Witnessing
27 Edward O. Wilson On Silent Spring
37 Jim Lynch Rachel Carson in The Highest Tide
49 Sandra Steingraber Silent Spring: A Father-Daughter Dance
63 Al Gore Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
79 John Elder Withered Sedge and Yellow Wood: Poetry in Silent Spring
97 John Hay A Long View of Rachel Carson
109 Janisse Ray Changing Sex
129 Terry Tempest Williams The Moral Courage of Rachel Carson
147 Freeman House Silent Future: Rachel Carson and the Creeping Apocalypse
165 Robert Michael Pyle Always a Naturalist
183 Linda Lear Remembrance of Life
199 Contributors 203 Rachel Carson Bibliography
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