Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

$350 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First Edition. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi , 368 pages. Carson was inspired to research and write this landmark work when people noticed an absence of birds in farming areas of Massachusetts. Silent Spring exposed the environmental and health dangers of indiscriminate pesticide

• Binding: Hardcover

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