The gentle subversive [[electronic resource] ] : Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement / / Mark Hamilton Lytle

• Autore: Lytle Mark H
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.580973; 570.92B
• Soggetto topico: Biologists - United States; Environmentalists - United States; Science writers - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-261) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 farm
• Titolo autorizzato: The gentle subversive
• ISBN: 1-281-15648-5; 0-19-803853-4; 9786611156480; 1-4356-0584-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451725603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New narratives in American history.