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On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring

Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movementShe loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. Download On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that this unassuming biologist transformed our relationship with the natural world.Rachel Carson began work on Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT, whose inventor had won a Nobel Prize for its discovery. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitt Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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