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092    BIO|bCARSON 
100 1  Souder, William,|d1949- 
245 10 On a farther shore :|bthe life and legacy of Rachel Carson
       /|cWilliam Souder. 
246 30 Life and legacy of Rachel Carson. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bCrown Publishing Group,|c[2012] 
264  4 |c©2012 
300    496 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Part One. Water World -- Miss Carson's Book -- Bright as 
       the Mid-day Sun -- Biologizing -- The English Connection 
       and the Ocean Deep -- This Beautiful and Sublime World -- 
       Author Triumphant -- Part Two. Silent Spring -- Dorothy --
       The Enduring Sea -- Earth on Fire -- Collateral Damage -- 
       High Tides and Low -- Epilogue. 
520    Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental 
       movement, began work on her seminal book Silent Spring in 
       the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic 
       pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical 
       onslaught was the insecticide DDT. Effective against crop 
       pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases 
       such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared 
       safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced 
       of collateral damage to fish, birds, and other wildlife. 
       Silent Spring was a chilling indictment of DDT and its 
       effects, and it shocked the public and forced the 
       government to take action despite a withering attack on 
       Carson from the chemicals industry. The book awakened the 
       world to the heedless contamination of the environment and
       eventually led to the establishment of the Environmental 
       Protection Agency and to the banning of DDT and a host of 
       related pesticides. 
600 10 Carson, Rachel,|d1907-1964. 
600 10 Carson, Rachel,|d1907-1964.|tSilent spring. 
600 10 Carson, Rachel,|d1907-1964|xInfluence. 
650  0 Marine biologists|vBiography. 
650  0 Naturalists|vBiography. 
650  0 Environmentalists|vBiography. 
650  0 Science writers|vBiography. 
650  0 Pesticides|xEnvironmental aspects|xHistory. 
650  0 Environmentalism|xHistory. 
650  0 Environmental ethics|xHistory.