num_pages: 224
description: Rachel Carson combined her love of science and writing in her awardwinning and controversial book, Silent Spring. Revealing the dangers of pesticide use, it brought readers a new awareness of man’s contamination of the environment and ultimately led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
language: English
title: Rachel Carson: A Twentieth-Century Life
titlecomplete: Rachel Carson: A Twentieth-Century Life (Up Close Series)
genres: Biography, Nature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 68
publisher: Viking Juvenile