Published in 1962, Silent Spring was widely read by the general public and became a New York Times best seller. All three books were physical explanations of life, all drenched with miracle of what happens to life in and near the sea. Her sensational book Silent Spring (1962) warned of the dangers to all natural systems from the misuse of chemical pesticides such as DDT, and questioned the. The president of another chemical company, one that produced DDT, said Carson wrote not as a scientist, but as a fanatic defender of the cult of the balance of nature. Carson, Rachel Silent Spring, nonfiction book written by Rachel Carson that became one of the most-influential books in the modern environmental movement. The Edge of the Sea (1955) brought Carson’s focus on the ecosystems of the eastern coast from Maine to Florida.
It became an international best-seller, raised the consciousness of a generation, and made Rachel Carson the trusted public voice of science in America. A canny scholar working in government during World War II, Carson took advantage of the latest scientific material for her next book, The Sea Around Us (1951) which was nothing short of a biography of the sea. Her first book, Under the Sea-Wind (1941) was a gripping account of the interactions of a sea bird, a fish and an eel - who shared life in the open seas. She was always aware of the impact that humans had on the natural world. Fish and Wildlife Service in Washington, DC, primarily as a writer and editor. When Silent Spring was published in 1962, author Rachel Carson was subjected to vicious personal assaults that had nothing do with the science or the merits of pesticide use. Born in Springdale, Pennsylvania, upstream from the industrial behemoth of Pittsburgh, she became a marine scientist working for the U.S. Carson was a student of nature, a born ecologist before that science was defined, and a writer who found that the natural world gave her something to write about.
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