Silent Spring
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Silent Spring
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Narrated by:
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Kaiulani Lee
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By:
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Rachel Carson
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"Silent Spring came as a cry in the wilderness, a deeply felt, thoroughly researched, and brilliantly written argument that changed the course of history." (Al Gore)
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- Anonymous User
- 28-01-2021
Essential reading for any environmentalist.
A terrifying cautionary tale and without doubt a truly seminal piece of work and with excellent reason. "Do we really want to live in a world that is just not quite dead?".
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- Mike Back
- 04-01-2018
Compelling
Not an easy subject matter but beautifully writen. A vivid and detailed description of the web of life on our planet and how our unconstrained use of chemicals threatens to distrust and damage those systems, often to our own detriment.
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- Kellie Davis
- 05-10-2019
Classic for a reason
There is a reason this book is a classic
YOu’ve done it justice by having Kaiulani Lee narrate it
Love, love, loved it all
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- Anonymous User
- 28-02-2022
Extraordinarily good
This is a famous book, but even so I didn’t expect it to be so well written and engaging. It takes science seriously, as might be expected, but also honours the distress that ordinary people feel when their backyard birds disappear. Carson has great respect for the reader - clearly explaining the complex biochemistry of pesticides, starting with molecules and ending with heartbreaking descriptions of the death of birds. There are of course some mistakes, but this book is a remarkable achievement and well worth reading now.
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