DOCSLIB.ORG

Rachel Carson Facts

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Rachel Carson Facts Rachel Carson Worksheets Rachel Carson Facts Source: orionpozo / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose research and writings on environmental pollution are noted as significant contributions to the global environmental movement. EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION ★ Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania. ★ Her father was Robert Warden Carson, an insurance salesman, and her mother was Maria Frazier. ★ She grew up on her family’s farm in Springdale. ★ She enjoyed reading and writing literature, particularly on the themes of nature and the ocean. ★ Rachel studied at a local elementary school and high school in Parnassus, Pennsylvania. KIDSKONNECT.COM Rachel Carson Facts ★ She graduated from high school at the top of her class in 1925. ★ She entered Pennsylvania College for Women and initially majored in English, before switching her field of study to biology. ★ She received admission to Johns Hopkins University but stayed at Pennsylvania College for Women due to financial constraints. ★ She graduated magna cum laude in 1929. ★ Upon graduation, she went to graduate school as a part-time student at Johns Hopkins University where she studied zoology. ★ She earned her master's degree in June 1932. TEACHER AND BIOLOGIST ★ In 1931, she began teaching at the University of Maryland. She taught there for five years. ★ In 1936 Carson began working as an aquatic biologist with the US Bureau of Fisheries, where she worked until 1952. ★ At the Bureau of Fisheries, she analyzed data on fish populations and wrote literature based on the research. ★ While working for the bureau, she wrote about her research for local Rachel Carson’s employee newspapers such as The Baltimore photo at the US Fish and Wildlife Sun. Service ★ In 1940, the Bureau transformed into the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, a federal agency devoted to the management of fish and wildlife. ★ By 1945, she became editor-in-chief of the publications of the Fish and Wildlife Service. KIDSKONNECT.COM Rachel Carson Facts PUBLISHED AUTHOR ★ In 1941, her first book Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life was published by Simon & Schuster. It received critical praise for its content and style, despite not being a commercial bestseller. ★ Under the Sea became a bestseller after the success of its sequel, The Sea Around Us, published in 1951. ★ The Sea Around Us covered the prehistoric beginnings of the sea up to the latest scientific explorations. ★ Her second book became a national bestseller and won a National Book Award. It has since been translated into 30 languages. ★ It was also her second book that made Carson more popular as a writer and conservationist. ★ In 1955, she published her third book The Edge of the Sea. ★ Her first three books make up what would be called her sea trilogy. Source: Ryan Somma / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Rachel Carson’s works in the National American History Museum's Science in American Life exhibit KIDSKONNECT.COM Rachel Carson Facts SILENT SPRING ★ In the mid-1940s, Carson grew increasingly concerned about pesticide use upon its development during the First World War. ★ She was all the more driven to research and write about the topic after the US government launched the gypsy moth eradication program in 1957. ★ The program involved spraying of pesticides, particularly the insecticide DDT (dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane). ★ She conducted investigations about illnesses and ecological destruction that resulted from pesticide exposure. ★ In 1962, she published her best-known book Silent Spring which not only became a bestseller but also raised awareness around the world of the dangers of environmental pollution. ★ The title of the book is a metaphor for nature’s bleak future. ★ In the book, Carson wrote about the harmful effects and consequences of the use of pesticide and how the planet was reaching its limits, beyond what it is able to sustain. ★ Carson predicted that the consequences would intensify as pests would develop pesticide resistance and invade and weaken ecosystems. ★ The book proposed an alternative to the use of chemical pesticides: a biotic approach to pest control. ★ She was not the first person to write about such environmental concerns but her work reached a broader readership. Since then, it has been credited for advancing the modern environmental movement. ★ The environmental movement that emerged in the 1960s is rooted in the belief that the Earth is heading towards a bleak future given how terribly humans treat the natural world at present. KIDSKONNECT.COM Rachel Carson Facts DEATH AND LEGACY ★ While working on Silent Spring, Carson fell ill and malignant cysts were discovered in her left breast. ★ She underwent radiation treatment which weakened her. ★ She caught a respiratory virus in January 1964 and her condition worsened. The cancer had reached her liver. ★ She died on April 14, 1964, from a heart attack, at her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. ★ Carson’s work is considered some of the most influential writing on environmental concerns. ★ Her work had a direct impact on the campaign to ban the use of DDT in the United States. Source: South Bend Voice / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 The People's Climate March, 2014 KIDSKONNECT.COM Name: ______________ Teacher, Researcher, Author Rachel Carson studied marine biology and zoology at college, then became a teacher, researcher, and author. Summarize her major contributions in each field. Cite the institution/s she worked for and the work/s she created. RACHEL THE TEACHER _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ RACHEL THE RESEARCHER _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ RACHEL THE AUTHOR _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ RACHEL CARSON WORKSHEETS KIDSKONNECT.COM Name: ______________ Correct Timeline Arrange the following details on the timeline, then complete the events. 1964 1907 A. Rachel Carson fell ill and cysts were found in her left ____________. B. Rachel Carson was born in Springdale, ____________. C. Rachel Carson began working as an aquatic biologist with the US Bureau of ____________. D. Rachel Carson grew increasingly concerned about ____________ use upon its development during the First World War. E. Rachel Carson became ___________ of the publications of the Fish and Wildlife Service. RACHEL CARSON WORKSHEETS KIDSKONNECT.COM Name: ______________ Marine Vocabulary In her writings, Rachel Carson expounded on the depths of the sea. Learn more about the sea by looking up the definitions of the following words and using them in meaningful sentences. ALGAE _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ BARRIER REEF _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ CORAL _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ EBB TIDE _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ MARITIME _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ OCEAN FLOOR _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ RACHEL CARSON WORKSHEETS KIDSKONNECT.COM Name: ______________ Title Completion Complete the titles of Rachel Carson’s four bestselling books about the sea and the environment. U D T S : A N U L I ’ S P C T F O E N L E T S A O D S T D F T S S L T S P R RACHEL CARSON WORKSHEETS KIDSKONNECT.COM Name: ______________ About Silent Spring Silent Spring is Rachel Carson’s best-known work as it was used as the basis of certain causes forwarded during the environmental movement of the 1960s. Fill in the blanks to complete the About Page for Silent Spring. The title Silent Spring is a metaphor for… ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ In Silent Spring, Carson predicted... ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ The main subject discussed in Silent Spring is… _________________________________________ _______________________________________ In the end, the book proposed... ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ RACHEL CARSON WORKSHEETS KIDSKONNECT.COM Name: ______________ Famous Conservationists Like Rachel Carson, the following people are known for being conservationists. A conservationist is a person who advocates for the protection and preservation of wildlife and the environment. Create an introductory profile for each conservationist. Cite their main advocacies. STEVE IRWIN _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ THEODORE ROOSEVELT _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ EDWARD OSBORNE WILSON _________________________________
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Linda J. Lear University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Linda J. Lear University of Maryland, Baltimore County Source: Environmental History Review 17 (Summer 1993): 23-48 Rachel Carson was an improbable revolutionary, even an unlikely reformer, yet she challenged industrial empires, exposed a scientific establishment that cherished its elitism, and accused the government of being irresponsible. She consciously questioned the dominant system of institutional arrangements and the culture's unequivocal devotion to technological progress. Her crusade renewed the political power of homeowners and housewives. Most important, her message fundamentally altered the way Americans, indeed citizens of the planet, look upon the living environment. By the eloquence of her prose and rigor of her synthesis, Rachel Carson educated the public and made the life sciences a vehicle for understanding complex technology. Silent Spring, published thirty years ago, alerted the world to the invisible dangers of environmental poisoning. She intended to alarm and hoped to encourage change, but she did not anticipate becoming a public figure or inspiring a cultural revolution. An intensely private person, reserved rather than shy, Carson had the fortitude and perseverance of a strong Scotch-Irish, Presbyterian heritage. She grew up in Springdale, Pennsylvania, a dreary town north and east of Pittsburgh which never became much more than a bedroom community for the West Penn Power Company. A much elder sister and brother were out of the tiny Carson home by the time Rachel was in elementary school. Her mother, Maria McLean, was the most important influence on her intellect and outlook. Carson's early aptitude for writing was remarkable. She won several awards for stories published in juvenile literary magazines and liked to say that she had been a professional writer since the age of eleven.
    [Show full text]
  • Rachel Carson Article
    hen a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. ... There was a strange stillness. ... The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring Table of Contents A Quiet Woman Whose Book Spoke Loudly By Phyllis McIntosh A Book That Changed a Nation 5 By Michael Jay Friedman A Persistent Controversy, a Still Valid Warning 8 By May Berenbaum Rachel Carson’s Legacy A photo essay Bibliography 4 Additional readings and Web pages Cover photo: Rachel Carson at her microscope, 1951. Above: Baby wrens call for their supper. A Quiet Woman Whose Book Spoke Loudly By Phyllis McIntosh shy, unassuming scientist every thing related to the ocean.” She also was and former civil servant, determined that one day she would be a writer. Rachel Carson seemed an unlikely candidate to be- As a student at Pennsylvania College for Women, come one of the most in- she majored in English until her junior year, when fluential women in mod- she switched to biology–a bold move at a time ern America. But Carson when few women entered the sciences. She went had two lifelong passions–a on to graduate cum laude love of nature and a love of from Johns Hopkins Uni- writing–that compelled her versity with a master’s de- in 962 to publish Silent gree in marine biology in Spring, the book that awak- 932.
    [Show full text]
  • Rachel Carson's Under the Sea-Wind and Environmental Literature
    “To what end is nature?” – Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea-Wind and Environmental Literature Fernanda Luísa Feneja Centro de Estudos Anglísticos, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa ISSN: 0873-0628 ANGLO SAXONICA SER. III N. 12 2016 “To what end is nature?” – Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea-Wind and Environmental Literature Introduction No biographical information about Rachel Carson can fail to mention the significant number of categories that describe her working life: she is referred to as an academic, a scientist, a marine biologist, a naturalist, an environ - mentalist, a journalist and, less often, a nature writer. Carson’s biographer, Linda Lear, labels her as a “biologist-writer-ecologist” (“Rachel Carson’s Biography” n.pg.). Actually, Carson worked in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (formerly, between 1935 and 1952, the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries) for fifteen years, first as a radio scriptwriter, and later as an aquatic biologist, scientific writer, editor, and editor-in-chief of that service’s publications (Lear, “Rachel Carson’s Biography” n.pg.), resigning only after the success of The Sea Around Us, published in 1951. She devoted her life to the study of nature and, more particularly, to sea life, becoming increasingly aware of the negative impact of human action on the natural environment. Although the whole body of Carson’s writings1 reflects her love of nature and her lifelong commitment to its preservation, Silent Spring (1962) is her best remembered book. By addressing the poisonous effect of the overuse and misuse of pesticides, namely DDT, on living species, Silent Spring not only drew public attention to environmental issues in an unprecedented way but also called for political action.2 The book is often 1 Carson’s publications include Under the Sea-Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951), The Edge of the Sea (1955), Silent Spring (1962), and The Sense of Wonder (1965 – posthumous publication).
    [Show full text]
  • Centre De Cas HEC Montréal, 3000, Chemin De La Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Québec) Canada H3T 2A7
    Volume 1 Numéro 3 Novembre 2003 « Imaginez un printemps silencieux… » Rachel Carson, biologiste, pionnière du courant environnementaliste1 Cas produit par Francine RICHER et les professeurs Veronika KISFALVI (HEC) et Steve MAGUIRE (McGill). La beauté du monde que j’ai tenté de sauvegarder a toujours été ma préoccupation première […] Je me suis sentie liée par une obligation solennelle […] Si je n’avais pas essayé, plus jamais je n’aurais été heureuse dans la nature. Au moins, maintenant, je crois que j’ai fait ma part. Ce serait irréaliste de croire qu’un livre puisse tout changer, à lui seul2. – Rachel Carson Imaginez un printemps silencieux… Pour Rachel Carson, biologiste marine et fonctionnaire du gouvernement américain de 1936 à 1952, cette phrase courte et doucement impérative adressée à ses lecteurs fut, à la fois, une invitation et un argument contre un ennemi de taille, un géant. Et c’est avec la force des mots qu’elle contribua à le vaincre. Cet ennemi avait vu le jour au cours de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale et avait mérité une réputation internationale de tueur efficace et bon marché contre les épidémies qui terrassaient les humains et… contre les insectes qui ravageaient les récoltes. 1 L’excellence de ce cas a mérité à ses auteurs de recevoir, en 2002, le prix Alma-Lepage décerné pour la rédaction d’un cas au féminin. Mme Alma Lepage a fait don à HEC Montréal d’un fonds dont les revenus servent à l’attribution de bourses et d’un prix dans le but de promouvoir l’avancement des femmes en gestion et de perpétuer l’esprit avant-gardiste dont a fait preuve, tout au long de sa vie, cette première diplômée de l’École.
    [Show full text]
  • Caption: Rachel Carson at the Dock at Sam Cahoon's Fish Market in Woods Hole in 1951, Just After the Publication of Her Best-Selling Book, the Sea Around Us
    Caption: Rachel Carson at the dock at Sam Cahoon's Fish Market in Woods Hole in 1951, just after the publication of her best-selling book, The Sea Around Us. Ms. Carson enjoyed her conversations with scientists and fishermen and went to sea for 10 days on the Fisheries vessel, Albatross III, in 1949. Behind her is the fishing dragger, Priscilla V., owned by Jared Vincent of Woods Hole. (Photo by Edwin Gray. Courtesy of the Lear/Carson Collection, Connecticut College.) Summers in Woods Hole Spur Rachel Carson’s Love of Ocean By Deborah G. Scanlon June 8, 2007 When Rachel Carson came to Woods Hole from her home in Pennsylvania in the summer of 1929, she traveled the last part of her trip by boat. From New York City, she took steamers to New Bedford, then to Woods Hole. It was cheaper and more interesting, she noted later, than traveling by train. It was also her first look at the ocean, which captivated her, and would become the focus of much of her career and writing. Years later, in 1951, John Valois was a young college graduate in his first year at what is now known as the Marine Resources Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. In the 1950s, the center was known as the Supply Department. His supervisor asked him to take a well-known writer to Lake Tashmoo on Martha's Vineyard to collect Arenicola marina (lug worms). That author was Rachel Carson, who was working on The Edge of the Sea at the time, and she and Mr.
    [Show full text]
  • Rachel Carson Online Book Club, Beginning in March and Continuing Through November 2007
    An Online Book Club A Sense of Wonder: Rachel Carson’s Legacy Sponsored by The Friends of the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) This online book club is hosted by the Friends of NCTC in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s efforts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s birth. Beginning in March 2007, and continuing through November 2007, participants will read books written by and about Rachel Carson. Titles include: • Silent Spring • Under the Sea-Wind • Lost Woods • Courage for the Earth • Always, Rachel • The Sense of Wonder • The Edge of the Sea • The Sea Around Us Prominent guest facilitators will moderate the discussions. For more details, see the back of this flyer. http://rcbookclub.blogspot.com For more information on how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife is celebrating Rachel Carson’s legacy, please visit www.fws.gov/rachelcarson Rachel Carson is considered by many to be the mother of modern-day ecology. This year, to mark the 100th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s birth, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will celebrate the achievements of its most notable employee. A highlight of the centennial celebration is the Rachel Carson Online Book Club, beginning in March and continuing through November 2007. The forum will focus on the life and work of Rachel Carson including her role as a female leader in science and government. Distinguished guest moderators will participate in the online discussions. Author and Carson biographer, Linda Lear will launch the first session on March 1. Other moderators in the line-up are: Patricia DeMarco, Rachel Carson Homestead Executive Director; Thomas Dunlap, author and Professor of History; John Elder, author and professor of Environmental Studies at Middlebury College; Maril Hazlett, Independent Scholar; H.
    [Show full text]
  • Rachel Carson
    Rachel Carson Marine Biologist, Zoologist, Environmentalist Author Graduated magna cum laude from Pennsylvania College for Women Master’s degree in Zoology 1932, John Hopkins University Biography: Rachel Carson was born May 27, 1907. She was originally motivated by the outdoors and writing through her mother. She began college as an English major and switched to biology, continuing to work on the college newspaper. After her father died, she went home to care for her mother. Satisfying her passions for zoology and writing, she began writing for the US Bureau of Fisheries. Rachel worked full time writing pamphlets and studying fish populations before writing her first book Under the Sea-Wind in 1941. She became Chief Editor of Publications for the Fish and wildlife Service in 1949 and wrote her second book The Sea Around Us in 1950. Both books were on the bestseller list. While suffering from terminal cancer, Carson shaped environmentalism as we know it today with the release Silent Spring in 1962. Because of her work, the use of DDT was banned in 1972. Among other things, this made a huge difference in the lives of bald eagles. Due to DDT in the food chain, their eggs were too fragile and would crack before chicks were old enough to hatch. Their number increased from 500 in the 1950s to about 100,000. Carson died April 14, 1964. Research Description: In her work Under the Sea-Wind, Carson focused on the life of three creatures and how their lives were interconnected. For The Sea Around Us, Carson collected research from submarine warfare of WWII.
    [Show full text]
  • National Council for the Social Studies
    Social Studies Research and Practice Volume 1, Number 3, Winter 2006 www.socstrp.org ISSN: 1933-5415 Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan—Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson Nancy P. Gallavan University of Central Arkansas Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson (2003), by Amy Ehrlich with Wendell Minor (illus), Silver Whistle, Harcourt, Inc. Abstract Rachel Carson was a notable woman who studied the environment and cared for the planet Earth. Her life was highlighted by several significant events that unfolded to future events culminating with her writing the landmark book Silent Spring. In this NCSS notable trade book lesson plan format, students record 12 significant events in Rachel Carson’s life on a graphic organizer. The graphic organizer is designed as 12 circles like the face of a clock to show chronological order. Using the information provided in the book Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson (Ehrlich, 2003), students record 12 events to illustrate the cycle of life. This practical graphic organizer also can be used for recording important events in other people’s lives read in biographies and autobiographies as well as important events in each student’s life. Reading and sharing from the graphic organizer in chronological order prompts meaningful class conversations and learning experiences. This large picture book offers an informative and inspiring chronology of the life of Rachel Carson with incredibly Book Summary: beautiful full-page illustrations. Rachel Carson was born in Pennsylvania in 1912, became a university-educated biologist, and worked at the Woods Hole Marine Biology Laboratory on Cape Cod. Although she initially wanted to become a writer, she studied the environment, particularly the interactions between humans and the environment.
    [Show full text]
  • Rachel Carson Collection, 1946-2007
    Rachel Carson collection, 1946-2007 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on July 31, 2019. Describing Archives: A Content Standard Maine Women Writers Collection Abplanalp Library University of New England 716 Stevens Avenue Portland, Maine 04103 [email protected] URL: http://www.une.edu/mwwc Rachel Carson collection, 1946-2007 Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3 Biographical/Historical Note ......................................................................................................................... 3 Collection Scope and Content ....................................................................................................................... 4 Arrangement ................................................................................................................................................... 4 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 5 Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 6 Collection Inventory ......................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Rachel Carson: What Might Have Been? Dr
    Rachel Carson: What Might Have Been? Dr. Robert K. Musil, President, Rachel Carson Council Photos by Dr. Robert K. Musil* achel Carson has many nature sites, like the Rachel Carson Re- serve in Beaufort, North Carolina, named for her. There are schools, Rorganizations, awards, statues, even a postage stamp bearing her image. But Rachel Carson should have been famous even before World War II. Americans might have learned about and been spared the dangers of DDT and other pesticides right at the end of the war, long before Silent Spring rocked the nation in 1962. During the Depression, Carson was unable to finish her Ph.D. in biology at Johns Hopkins for financial and family reasons. Instead, she finally found a job writing brochures and radio scripts for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in Washington, D.C. Her work and research for the USFWS took her in 1938 to the U.S. Fishery Laboratory on Pivers Island in Beaufort. Closed in 1954, the old Rachel Carson sign at Beaufort wooden laboratory where Carson worked was replaced with modern facilities.The area now also features an ultra-modern Duke University Marine Lab. Beaufort today is a small, but increasingly upscale town with historic houses, a new luxury hotel, and numerous yachts. But when Carson worked and explored there, it was quiet and isolated. Rachel Carson fell in love with Beaufort at the edge of the sea. She walked the tidal zones and beaches, searched the sands at night by flashlight, and often lay there simply listening to the shore sounds, imagining, as well as studying, how they came to be.
    [Show full text]
  • Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" Author(S): Linda J. Lear Source: Environmental History Review, Vol
    Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" Author(s): Linda J. Lear Source: Environmental History Review, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Summer, 1993), pp. 23-48 Published by: Forest History Society and American Society for Environmental History Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3984849 . Accessed: 14/02/2011 15:53 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at . http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=fhs. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Forest History Society and American Society for Environmental History are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Environmental History Review. http://www.jstor.org Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Linda J.
    [Show full text]
  • Read Book Under the Sea-Wind Kindle
    UNDER THE SEA-WIND PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Rachel Carson,Linda Lear | 184 pages | 27 Sep 2007 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780143104964 | English | London, United Kingdom Under the Sea-wind PDF Book Every page she ever wrote is a page I want to swim in. I say so. In this book she writes three stories, the first about the seashore, second the open ocean, and third the dark waters where the sun doesn't reach. The extensive glossary at the end not only provides information about the various species captured in its pages, but also heightened m This was the first book I read on my new Kindle Paperwhite. Accept all Manage Cookies. Harry Potter. Jan 27, Ray Clendenen rated it it was amazing Shelves: travel-nature , non-fiction. But send this one to the Atlantic Monthly. Since , the Society for Social Studies of Science has awarded an annual Rachel Carson Book Prize for "a book length work of social or political relevance in the area of science and technology studies. If the contents of the book, please be as precise as you can as to the location. It does not have the strong, hard science bedrock of the other books by the same author, and it might have been that people first encountering it simply did not know whether to think of it a science, literature or 'nature writing'. The one small sadness about reading it is that so much of the teeming, abundant life, the vigorous underwater communities are no longer what they were when this book was written. Without access to WiFi, I couldn't look up what most of these animals looked like, which I would have appreciated.
    [Show full text]