This book talks about the ocean and the importance of conserving ocean life, keeping ocean waters clean and wholesome and protecting ocean life from growing extinct.

Profiles people who have been influential in the environmental movement: John Muir, Jay Norwood Ding Darling, Rosalie Edge, Aldo Leopold, Olaus and Margaret Murie, Rachel Carson, David Brower, and Gaylord Nelson.

With Silent Spring, Rachel helped create a movement to ban these harmful chemicals. Her findings helped to assure that future generations would be able to dream about the ocean and listen to crickets.

Her important book, Silent Spring, sounded the alarm to the many threats menacing our natural world.

From a small town in Pennsylvania came a little girl who saw the magic in spring fog and heard the ocean's song in her heart. This was the girl who one day would become the groundbreaking author of Silent Spring.

This volume lends insight into the life and work of a pioneering scientist and ecologist. Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist who wrote several books reflecting her lifelong interest in the seas and the seashores.

Traces the life and achievements of the biologist who wrote about the sea and the dangers of pesticides.

A biography of the marine biologist and nature writer well-known for her campaign against the careless use of chemicals.

Before Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, few Americans knew what the word ecology meant or realized that deadly chemicals could threaten life.

Ferguson's Career Biographies tell the stories of some of the world's most influential and admired people. This book focuses on Rachel Carson, looking at her early education and training, the challenges she faced on the job, important mentors and her career achievement.

A biography of the biologist who helped initiate the environmental movement.

When Rachel Carson's fourth book, Silent Spring, was published in 1962, the response was anything but silent.The book aroused public anger over the reckless use of pesticides and heightened worldwide awareness of the need to protect our fragile environment.

This book examine the life of courageous environmentalist and author of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson.

A marine biologist by training, Carson became a dedicated conservationist and her environmental writings influenced generations.

A biography of the American conservationist, biologist, and author.

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, here is a biography of the pioneering environmentalist.

Discusses author and marine biologist Rachel Carson's efforts to protect the environment, from her childhood nature outings in Pennsylvania through the impact of her 1962 book, "Silent Spring."

Learn about the great scientist Rachel Carson as she sparked the environmental movement. You'll read about her life, the science behind her studies, and the impact of her work on the world today.

Presents a brief history of the environmental movement and accounts of the work of four environmental activists: John Muir, Rachel Carson, David McTaggart, and Dave Foreman.

Profiles seven American women--Rachel Carson, Katharine Graham, Dolores Huerta, Wilma Mankiller, Maya Lin, Kathleen McGrath, and Condoleezza Rice--who came to prominence within the last fifty years, focusing on each one's achievements and role as a pioneer.