Rachel Carson (1907-1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. “Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . [It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters” (Peter Matthiessen, for Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Century).
This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson’s watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson’s courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.
This is a rigorous presentation of the effects of pesticide use as well as a call to greater awareness of our environment.
《寂静的春天》诞生于1962年,那个时代,工业革命已经蓬勃兴起一个世纪,世界大战结束不久,之前与大自然斗争中一直处于弱势的人类手中握有了科技这把利剑,也终于迎来了一个更具支配地位的时代,正是人们意气风发想要挑战大自然宣示自己霸主地位的时代,这本书却如石破天惊一...
评分尽管有法布尔的《昆虫记》这样的书做良师,我还是没有爱上昆虫,事实上,我讨厌几乎一切昆虫,从苍蝇、蚊子到无害的甲虫、蚯蚓,我都巴不得把它们消灭掉。因为在城市里长大的我,害怕它们。每当搬开一块儿红砖,看到下面抱团翻滚的蚯蚓,就差点作呕。洗菜时,遇见一只白虫...
评分书的内容就不用我评述了,但是翻译的水平、抑或是态度,却让我非常不满。 不知是我的中文阅读水平不到家,还是最近英文看得太多,总之我总感觉这本书看起来疙疙瘩瘩的。
评分蕾切尔·卡森女士的《寂静的春天》阅读接近尾声,我觉得可以写上点什么了。 看着上译本后文中p299-p366那常常的参考文献索引以及从文章中体会出那种冷静的文字(其实开始我对不用阿拉伯数字而用汉字表示而有些阅读上的不快,后来才发现是编排上的一致感)就知道在50年前,在“...
评分19、20世纪以来的科技革命使得人类社会“飞速发展”了。如今,连这个 发展速度本身也在飞速提高着。飞机飞行超过一定加速度的时候,飞行 员就会因超重而黑视,两眼模糊,看不清东西。如今的人类社会就已经 进入了“黑视”状态。我们看不清世界,看不清自己。作为动物的本能...
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评分经典;不过 人类对外界环境的改造 是不是也是人类进化的一环呢?或许 人类这一物种 将以前所未有的速度进化
评分经典;不过 人类对外界环境的改造 是不是也是人类进化的一环呢?或许 人类这一物种 将以前所未有的速度进化
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