The gentle subversive
Subtitle: Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement
By: Mark Hamilton Lytle
Series: New narratives in American history; New narratives in American history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780195172461; 9780195172478
Subjects: Biologists; Environmentalists; Ecologische beweging; Science writers; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword ---; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Prologue -- -- 1.; title: Spring --; title: Sense of wonder : under the sea-wind -- -- 2.; title: Summer --; title: Florescence : the sea around us -- -- 3.; title: Fall -- -- The; title: fullness of life : from the edge of the sea to DDT -- -- 4.; title: Winter -- -- The; title: poison book and the dark season of vindication --; title: Epilogue --; title: Rachel Carson : the legacy --; title: Afterword --; title: Bibliography --; title: Index.