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Carson, Rachel 1907-1964 Carson, Rachel 1907-1964 Influence Environmental ethics United States History Environmentalism United States History Environmentalists United States Biography Marine biologists United States Biography Naturalists United States Biography Pesticides Environmental aspects United States History Science writers United States Biography United StatesGessner, David
Summary: "An urgent call to protect America's public lands, told through New York Times bestselling author David Gessner's American road trip with our greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, as his guide"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2012