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Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1962
Pages
Pages 370

A biologist traces how the pesticides sprayed to kill insects climb the food chain instead, poisoning birds, water and soil, and warns that humanity's drive to conquer nature is silencing it, one songbird at a time.

There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings.
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson

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