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.
不知别人的感觉如何,我读了这本书之后的感觉,作者并没有过多地责怪科学,而是把矛头指向了制订愚蠢政策的政府。 如果读过迪特里希・德尔纳的《失败的逻辑》之后,或许能够更明晰一下概念:杀虫剂的滥用完全是因为对于事态发展的估计不足。制订政策的人往往只考虑到事态的...
评分不知别人的感觉如何,我读了这本书之后的感觉,作者并没有过多地责怪科学,而是把矛头指向了制订愚蠢政策的政府。 如果读过迪特里希・德尔纳的《失败的逻辑》之后,或许能够更明晰一下概念:杀虫剂的滥用完全是因为对于事态发展的估计不足。制订政策的人往往只考虑到事态的...
评分《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《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。
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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
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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
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