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Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson is the author of the best-seller “Silent Spring” and “The Sea Around Us,” which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.

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8 picks · 1951–1962

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Silent Spring—III
a reporter at large ·

Part III of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 series on the environmental impact of DDT and other pesticides.

Silent Spring—II
a reporter at large ·

Part II of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 series on the environmental impact of DDT and other pesticides.

Silent Spring—I
a reporter at large ·

Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 piece on the environmental impact of DDT and other pesticides.

THE EDGE OF THE SEA: THE ROCKY SHORES.
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PROFILE of the rocky shores of Maine and of the animals and vegetation that exist in these intertidal regions, specifically mussels. Along the American …

THE EDGE CF THE SEA: THE RIM OF SAND.
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PROFILE of intertidal beaches and about the animals that live in the sand, among the rocks, etc. Among the strays, brought by the Gulf Stream, is the …

The Sea: Wind, Sun, and Moon
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PROFILE OF THE SEA The first chart of the Gulf Stream was prepared about 1769, under the direction of Benjamin Franklin, while he was Deputy Postmaster …

THE SEA: THE ABYSS.
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PROFILE of the Sea: Tells about the layers of sediment on the floor of the ocean. In the shallower parts of the open Atlantic, there are patches of ooze …

THE SEA: UNFORGOTTEN WORLD
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PROFILE of the Sea: The Sargasso Sea is so different from any part of the earth that it can be considered a definite geographic region. A line drawn from …