A Strange Blight
Meehan Crist: Rachel Carson’s Forebodings, 6 June 2019
‘Silent Spring’ and Other Writings on the Environment
by Rachel Carson, edited by Sandra Steingraber.
Library of America, 546 pp., £29.99, March 2018,978 1 59853 560 0 Show More
by Rachel Carson, edited by Sandra Steingraber.
Library of America, 546 pp., £29.99, March 2018,
“... puzzle … a great light is breaking in my mind.’ As the biologist and environmental writer Sandra Steingraber writes in her introduction to ‘Silent Spring’ and Other Writings on the Environment, ‘Carson had an uncanny ability, when she discovered gaps in the data, to see across the far shore and make predictions that have turned out to be ... ”