Lost woods
Subtitle: the discovered writing of Rachel Carson
By: edited and with an introduction by Linda Lear.
Contributors: Lear, Linda J., 1940-
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Nature.; Wildlife conservation.; Marine ecology.; Bird watching.
Description: Here is a trove of Carson writing never before published or collected, uncovered by Linda Lear, author of the recent and acclaimed Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature.

Included are examples of her early and often remarkable nature writing for newspapers and for the Fish and Wildlife Service; journal observations on shore life; letters, including the "Lost Woods" correspondence concerning her efforts to save land in her beloved Maine, and another, written to her physician near the end of her life, that reveals Carson's fight to be told the truth about her cancer even as she was working to expose the hazards of pesticides. Lost Woods also creates a vivid record of Carson's activism.

In talks to national groups, she gives astute early criticism of the ties between universities and chemical manufacturers, and skewers her critics with still-timely precision.
Notes: Includes index.