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Rachel Carson and Her Sisters : Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped
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Rachel Carson and Her Sisters : Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment Paperback - 2015

by Musil, Robert K

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  • Title Rachel Carson and Her Sisters : Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment
  • Author Musil, Robert K
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press
  • Date 2015-09-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 18237956-6
  • ISBN 9780813576213 / 0813576210
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.74 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental Studies
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the publisher

In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing her to a new, contemporary audience.Rachel Carson was the first American to combine two longstanding, but separate strands of American environmentalism-the love of nature and a concern for human health. Widely known for her 1962 best-seller, Silent Spring, Carson is today often perceived as a solitary "great woman," whose work single-handedly launched a modern environmental movement. But as Musil demonstrates, Carson's life's work drew upon and was supported by already existing movements, many led by women, in conservation and public health.

On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, this book helps underscore Carson's enduring environmental legacy and brings to life the achievements of women writers and advocates, such as Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Terry Tempest Williams, Sandra Steingraber, Devra Davis, and Theo Colborn, all of whom overcame obstacles to build and lead the modern American environmental movement.

About the author

ROBERT K. MUSIL is President and CEO of The Rachel Carson Council, Inc., senior fellow at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University in Washington, D.C., and author of Hope for a Heated Planet. He is the former CEO of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility and an award-winning journalist.


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