![]() In what she referred to as her “poison book,” Carson revealed the damaging effects of the indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides on the environment. ![]() But rather than introducing readers to more of the natural world, the mild-mannered 55-year-old’s latest book warned they could be destroying it. When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in September 1962, she was already a celebrated American biologist and author best known for her trilogy of lyrical books on the ocean. ![]()
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