Silent Spring（ISBN=9780618249060）

　　First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.

　　Rachel Carson (1907-64) wanted to be a writer for as long as she could remember. Her first book, Under the Sea Wind, appeared in 1941. Silent Spring, which alerted the world to the dangers of the misuse of pesticides, was published in 1962. Carson's articles on natural history appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, Reader's Digest and Holiday. An ardent ecologist and preservationist, Carson warned against the dumping of atomic waste at sea and predicted global warming. The Edge of the Sea, which completed her biography of the sea, is also published in Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. Rachel Carson died of cancer at the age of 56.

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Linda Lear
A FABLE FOR TOMORROW
THE OBLIGATION TO ENDURE
ELIXIRS OF DEATH
SURFACE WATERS AND UNDERGROUND SEAS
REALMS OF THE SOIL
EARTH'S GREEN MANTLE
NEEDLESS HAVOC
AND NO BIRDS SING
RIVERS OF DEATH
INDISCRIMINATELY FROM THE SKIES
BEYOND THE DREAMS OF THE BORGIAS
THE HUMAN PRICE
THROUGH A NARROW WINDOW
ONE IN EVERY FOUR
NATURE FIGHTS BACK
THE RUMBLINGS OF AN AVALANCHE
THE OTHER ROAD
List of Principal Sources
Afterword by Edward O. Wilson
Index