Silent Spring - softcover

Author Rachel Carson Publisher: Penguin Group, United Kingdom - paperback (1962, reprinted 1991) First published in 1962, Rachel Carson's scientifically passionate exposure of the effects of indiscriminate use of chemicals is still of vital importance. In her vivid and well-informed text she describes how pesticides and insecticides are applied almost universally to farms, forests, gardens and homes with scant regard to the consequent contami