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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

por Linda Lear

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By drawing on previously unavailable sources and on interviews with those who knew her, Linda Lear gives a compelling portrait of this heroic woman, illuminating the origin of her connection with nature and of her determination to save what she loved. Lear reveals the unexpected influence of Carson's early experience with industrial pollution and examines her life-changing encounter with the possibility of global extinction in the frightening days of the early Cold War. The book follows Carson's efforts to become a marine biologist at a time when women were unwelcome in the academic community. It shows how her connections with nature were confirmed and strengthened through her work as a government scientist and editor, where her views about the potential dangers of synthetic chemical pesticides evolved. By the late 1950s, Carson had transformed colorless government research into three brilliant, popular books about the sea, including The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. Rachel Carson challenged the culture of her time and, in the process, shaped a powerful social movement that altered the course of American history.… (más)
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Too many irrelevant details, very well researched. ( )
  Marietje.Halbertsma | Jan 9, 2022 |
Lear's obvious lady-crush on Carson has turned her into a dedicated historian of Carson's life. I was surprised she even found so much to write about Carson's life. The amount of research is enough to earn four stars with my only criticism being that Lear's idolatry of Carson and her own environmental views may have obscured her objectivity. ( )
  Chickenman | Sep 10, 2018 |
The biography was incredibly exhaustive and detailed: Linda Lear's research must have been immense, and is truly a labor of love. I felt a great deal of respect for Carson's thoroughness and hard work as a writer and researcher as well as her private, sensitive nature and occasional toughness (she drove hard bargains with all of her publishers, which was interesting!)

I was fascinated by much of the material. I wish, however, that Lear had been willing to talk more frankly about Carson's obvious lesbianism. She kept a polite veneer over Carson's relationships and didn't draw obvious conclusions. Carson's overly possessive mother, who died in her 80s just a few years before her daughter and lived with her for decades, appears as the secret villain here, leaching much of Carson's energy and coming between her relationships with other women.

I would also have liked an update on what happened to Carson's great-nephew and ward, Roger Christie, since he was left orphaned after Carson's death and adopted by her publisher at Houghton Mifflin, Paul Brooks. So much of the book talks about Rachel's exhaustion at raising Roger, who was apparently a difficult, impulsive child. It would be a relief to know that he had gone on to have a decent life. ( )
  GabriellaWest | Dec 16, 2009 |
It took me several years to get around to reading this book, but once I started I found it difficult to put it down. Rachel Carson has been one of my heroes since high school, and this book really brought her lifelong struggles to light. Recommended reading for anyone interested in the environment or the early history of the environmental movement. ( )
  birdsetcetera | Dec 1, 2009 |
This wonderful biography was well-researched. After reading it, I immediately purchased Carson's earlier works to read again. ( )
  eduscapes | Nov 26, 2006 |
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To the loving memory of my father and mother, James C. and Henrietta D. Lear and for my son, Ian Cole Lear-Nickum.
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By drawing on previously unavailable sources and on interviews with those who knew her, Linda Lear gives a compelling portrait of this heroic woman, illuminating the origin of her connection with nature and of her determination to save what she loved. Lear reveals the unexpected influence of Carson's early experience with industrial pollution and examines her life-changing encounter with the possibility of global extinction in the frightening days of the early Cold War. The book follows Carson's efforts to become a marine biologist at a time when women were unwelcome in the academic community. It shows how her connections with nature were confirmed and strengthened through her work as a government scientist and editor, where her views about the potential dangers of synthetic chemical pesticides evolved. By the late 1950s, Carson had transformed colorless government research into three brilliant, popular books about the sea, including The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. Rachel Carson challenged the culture of her time and, in the process, shaped a powerful social movement that altered the course of American history.

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