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Silent Spring RACHEL CARSON Author of THE SEA AROUND US THE EXPLOSIVE BESTSELLER THE WHOLE WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT Silent Spring , winne r of 8 awards*, is the his tory making bes ts eller that s tunned the world with its terrifying revelation about our contaminate d planet. No s cience-fiction nightmare can equal the power of this authentic and chilling portrait of the un-seen des troye rs which have already begun to change the s hape of life as we know it. Silent Spring is a devas tating attack on human careles s ness , greed and irres pons ibility. It s hould be read by every Ame rican who does not want it to be the epitaph of a world not very far bey ond us in time. --- Saturday Review *Awards received by Rachel Carson for SI LE NT SPRI NG: The Schweitzer Medal (Animal Welfare Institute) The Constance Lindsay Skinner Achievement Award for merit in the realm of books (Wo me n s National Book Association) Award for Distinguished Service (New England Outdoor Writers Association) Conservation Award for 1962 (Rod and Gun Editors of Metropolitan Manhattan) Conservationist of the Year (National Wildlife Federation) 1963 Achi e vement Award (Albert Einstein College of Medicine --- Women s Division)
Service in Holland, Clarence Cottam of the Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation, George Crile, Jr., M.D., of the Cleveland Clinic, Frank Egler of Norfolk, Connecticut, Malcolm M. ... Pickett of the Canada Department of Agriculture, Thomas G. Scott of the Illinois Natural History . ... exception was The New Yorker, which would later ...
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