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Up Close: Rachel Carson

by Ellen Levine · 2007

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Rachel Carson combined her love of science and writing in her award-winning and controversial book Silent Spring. Revealing the dangers of pesticide use, it brought readers a new awareness of humankind's contamination of the environment and ultimately led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Subject
biography
Themes
nature
Setting
USA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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