02873nam 22006614a 450 991045172560332120210422192622.01-281-15648-50-19-803853-497866111564801-4356-0584-5(CKB)1000000000473230(EBL)415888(OCoLC)476245509(SSID)ssj0000161812(PQKBManifestationID)11155174(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161812(PQKBWorkID)10219338(PQKB)10117376(MiAaPQ)EBC415888(Au-PeEL)EBL415888(CaPaEBR)ebr10194248(CaONFJC)MIL115648(EXLCZ)99100000000047323020060615d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe gentle subversive[electronic resource] Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement /Mark Hamilton LytleNew York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (288 p.)New narratives in American historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-517247-7 0-19-517246-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-261) and index.Spring -- Sense of wonder: Under the Sea-Wind -- Summer -- Florescence: The Sea Around Us -- Fall - The fullness of life: From The Edge of the Sea to DDT -- Winter -- The poison book and the dark season of vindication -- Epilogue Rachel Carson: the legacy.Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact biography of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision. We follow Carson from her childhood on a farmNew narratives in American history.BiologistsUnited StatesBiographyEnvironmentalistsUnited StatesBiographyScience writersUnited StatesBiographyElectronic books.BiologistsEnvironmentalistsScience writers320.580973570.92BLytle Mark H847258MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451725603321The gentle subversive1926179UNINA