Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
by Rachel Carson
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Author: Rachel CarsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09-15
ISBN: 0807085472
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Beacon Press
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- ISBN13: 9780807085479
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Summary of Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life.In her lifetime, Rachel Carson published only four books. She was a careful writer and meticulous researcher, for one thing, and she worked as a government scientist until the success of books like Silent Spring and The Sea Around Us enabled her to turn to her own writing full-time. She also published several magazine pieces, many of which biographer Linda Lear gathers here, along with letters and journal entries. In one piece that is characteristic both of her modesty and of her wit, Carson remarks on her then-unusual status of being an "average-sized woman" and a scientist, one who had just become "a biographer of the sea." In another, Carson writes of the necessity of protecting shorelines from economic development that would hasten their erosion and subsequent destruction. Carson's many fans will take much pleasure in this anthology of her work. --Gregory McNamee
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