Book · 1962 · Nonfiction

Silent Spring

Name: Silent Spring
Author: Rachel Carson

Houghton Mifflin · 378 pages

★ 7.9 editorial score

Carson opens on a town where the birds have stopped singing, then lays out what pesticides do to water, soil, and human bodies. The chemical industry attacked her and the law changed.

Subject

Environmental destruction

Time

1962

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