Science & Nature· United States
Silent Spring
by Rachel CarsonAggregate Editorial Score40/100
Goodreads Choice Award
Published 1962336 pagesEnglish
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Published in 1962, Silent Spring established Rachel Carson as one of the defining voices in science & nature. Carson's investigation into the effects of pesticides—particularly DDT—on the natural world launched the modern environmental movement and led to a ban on DDT in the United States. One of the most influential non-fiction books of the twentieth century. Themes of environment, pesticides, ecology run through the work. The book has received recognition from Goodreads Choice Award 1962.
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