The gentle subversive : Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement /

Lytle, Mark H.

The gentle subversive : Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement / Mark Hamilton Lytle. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - x, 277 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - New narratives in American history . - New narratives in American history. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-261) and index.

Foreword --- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Spring -- Sense of wonder : under the sea-wind -- Summer -- Florescence : the sea around us -- Fall -- fullness of life : from the edge of the sea to DDT -- Winter -- poison book and the dark season of vindication -- Epilogue -- Rachel Carson : the legacy -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. The 4. The

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Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.


Biologists--United States--Biography.
Environmentalists--United States--Biography.
Science writers--United States--Biography.
Ecologische beweging.

QH31.C33 / L98 2007