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自然文學經典著作《寂靜的春天》英文版
大地陷入奇怪的寂靜。
田野、樹林、沼澤到處了無聲息。鳥兒哪裡去了？
農場母雞孵不出小雞、小豬養不大、蘋果樹結不出果子
農民生了怪病、小孩在玩耍時突然倒下
這一切好像魔咒降臨......
Rachel Carson(瑞秋卡森)是美國著名的生物學家與自然文學家，她的著作《寂靜的春天》於1962 年首次出版，被譽為可比擬達爾文《物種起源》的世紀經典作品。
書中揭示濫用殺蟲劑的化學汙染對生態環境及人類文化所產生的巨大衝擊，
面對以商業利益為重的化學製造公司無情的抨擊，她選擇勇敢地捍衛自己所發現的真相，也警示人類社會與棲息地息息相關，喚醒了人們更高一層的社會良知，開啟了現代環境保護運動。
這本五十週年紀念版加入了環保主義者/活動家Terry Tempest Williams撰寫的新介紹文，並加入撰寫瑞秋卡森傳記的作者Linda Lear告知世人瑞秋卡森是如何無懼對抗化學工業捍衛真相的故事。
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Springalerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers ofindiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the lawsaffecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runawaybestseller, with international reverberations . . . [It is] well crafted,fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation ofactivists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers inAmerican letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time"s 100 MostInfluential People of the Century). This fiftieth anniversary editioncelebrates Rachel Carson"s watershed book with a new introduction by theauthor and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimedRachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson"scourageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from thechemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and beforeher untimely death in 1964.
