Silent Spring

Date Written:  1962-09-28
Publisher:  Fawcett Crest Books, New York, USA
Year Published:  1962
Pages:  304pp   Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX7648

A landmark book documenting the detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, particularly on birds.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. A Fable for Tomorrow
2. The Obligation to Endure
3. Elixirs of Death
4. Surface Waters and Underground Seas
5. Realms of the Soil
6. Earth's Green Mantle
7. Needless Havoc
8. And No Birds Sing
9. Rivers of Death
10. Indiscriminately from the Skies
11. Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias
12. The Human Price
13. Through a Narrow Window
14. One in Every Four
15. Nature Fights Back
16. The Rumblings of an Avalanche
17. The Other Road

List of Principal Sources
Index