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The house of life: Rachel Carson at work; with selections from her writings published and unpublished.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1972.Description: xvi, 350 p. illus. 24 cmISBN:
  • 0395135176
Contained works:
  • Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964. Selections. 1972
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 574/.0924 B
LOC classification:
  • QH31.C33 B7
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The writer and his subject -- 2. Two currents meet -- 3. "Undersea" -- 4. Firstborn -- 5. From Under the sea-wind. "Flood-tide." "Winter storm." "Race to the sea." "Birth of a mackerel." "The abyss" -- 6. Washington: war and postwar -- 7. "An island I remember" -- 8. Conservation in action -- 9. At work on The sea around us -- 10. Fame -- 11. From The sea around us. "The birth of an island" -- 12. The evolution of an idea -- 13. From The edge of the sea. "The marginal world." "Patterns of shore life" -- 14. Sky, a child's world, and a dream -- 15. "Our ever-changing shore" -- 16. The genesis of Silent spring -- 17. Marshaling the experts -- 18. The end and the beginning -- 19. From Silent spring. "The obligation to endure." "The story of Clear Lake." "Earth's green mantle." "Through a narrow window." "The balance of nature." "The other road" -- 20. The storm -- 21. The closing journey -- Sources -- Rachel Carson bibliography -- Index.
Holdings
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks QH31.C33B7 1 Available 33710000459292

"Rachel Carson bibliography": p. [339]-343.

WAR, NEWBERY,

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The writer and his subject -- 2. Two currents meet -- 3. "Undersea" -- 4. Firstborn -- 5. From Under the sea-wind. "Flood-tide." "Winter storm." "Race to the sea." "Birth of a mackerel." "The abyss" -- 6. Washington: war and postwar -- 7. "An island I remember" -- 8. Conservation in action -- 9. At work on The sea around us -- 10. Fame -- 11. From The sea around us. "The birth of an island" -- 12. The evolution of an idea -- 13. From The edge of the sea. "The marginal world." "Patterns of shore life" -- 14. Sky, a child's world, and a dream -- 15. "Our ever-changing shore" -- 16. The genesis of Silent spring -- 17. Marshaling the experts -- 18. The end and the beginning -- 19. From Silent spring. "The obligation to endure." "The story of Clear Lake." "Earth's green mantle." "Through a narrow window." "The balance of nature." "The other road" -- 20. The storm -- 21. The closing journey -- Sources -- Rachel Carson bibliography -- Index.