Still, Silent Spring would never have had the impact it did if Carson had not believed, fervently, that the indiscriminate use of environmentally persistent pesticides threatened the entire fabric of the natural world she loved. Lear's biography contains too much inconsequential detail and says too little about the intellectual context in which Carson's ideas developed. John R. Alden, a writer living in Michigan, is particularly interested in natural history and the history of environmental preservation. This book is only tangentially about birds. Kingbird Highway is really about monomania.
Drivers flash peace signs.
Beside the highway stands a Jesus look-alike, thumb out. Kenn Kaufman certainly had the au courant long hair and beard, and hobo couture. His ornithology fixation had already set in by his ninth birthday, when Kaufman's family moved from South Bend, Indiana, to Wichita, Kansas. En route he discovered hitchhikers, those traffickers in his future modus operandi. But mostly the boy in the backseat scanned fences, wires, the tops of elms.