Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge

SUNY Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

by Lisa H. Sideris (editor), Kathleen Dean Moore (Editor)

Long before Rachel Carson would become synonymous with environmental activism, she was a nature and science writer, penning The Sense of Wonder for children, and three books about the ocean and its inhabitants--including the bestselling The Sea around Us. Based solidly on science and written in beautiful prose, Carson's work issued a practical and moral challenge to her Can we find a way to live on earth with care and respect? In Rachel Carson, the first book to offer a sustained treatment of her work prior to Silent Spring, editors Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore bring together seventeen writers, activists, and scholars from a range of disciplines to uncover the many sides of Rachel Carson. Exposing her enthusiasm for the natural world and the depth of her writings, the contributors examine her books, speeches, essays, and the letters she wrote as she prepared to die. A testament to Carson's continued influence on environmental thought, this volume is for everyone who cares about finding ways to live sustainably on earth.

297 pages, Hardcover

First published May 8, 2008

Reviews

[Christy]

I had to return this to the library half finished. I'm keeping it here so I remember I want to check it out and finish it when I have a little more time.

[Elyssa Back · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wrote a chapter in this book during grad school with Baird Callicott. It was about Rachel Carson and her early fiction on the marine world.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

Calvin: "...so many burning lamps shine for us in the workmanship of the universe to show forth the glory of its Author...the invisible divinity is made manifest in such spectacles..."