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RACHEL CARSON:
Selected Reading List
Science Reference Section
Science, Technology and Business Division
Library of Congress
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Conservationist and scientist, Rachel Carson was
born May 27, 1907. In observance of the 100th
anniversary of her birth, this bibliography lists books
and articles available at the Library of Congress authored by and about Miss Carson, in addition to internet resources. The impact of her seminal book, Silent
Spring (1962), is felt even today as our awareness of environmental contaminants continues to grow.
RACHEL CARSON'S WRITINGS
Brooks, Paul. The house of life: Rachel Carson at work, with selections
from her writings, published and unpublished. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., c1989.
350 p.
Bibliography: p. 331-343.
QH31.C33B7 1989
Carson, Rachel. The edge of the sea. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1955. 276 p.
QH91.C3
Carson, Rachel. Fish and shellfish of the middle Atlantic
coast. Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1945. 32 p. (Conservation
bulletin, 38)
SH221.C28
http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/RachelCarson/4540551.pdf
Carson, Rachel. Fish and shellfish of the south Atlantic
and Gulf coasts. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1944.
45 p. (Conservation
bulletin, 37)
SH35.A12C3
http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/RachelCarson/4540435.pdf
Carson, Rachel. Food from home waters ... Washington, United
States Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1943.
44 p. (Conservation bulletin, 34)
SH221.C3
http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/RachelCarson/11241052.pdf
Carson, Rachel. Food from the sea: fish and shellfish of
New England. Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1943. 74 p. (Conservation
bulletin, v. 33)
TX385.C3
http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/RachelCarson/4540701.pdf
Carson, Rachel. Of man and the stream of time. Claremont, CA,
Scripps College, 1962. 11 p.
QH75.C3
Carson, Rachel. The sea around us. New York, Oxford University
Press, 1951. 230 p.
Bibliography: p. 217-220.
GC21.C3
Carson, Rachel. Under the sea-wind, a naturalist's picture
of ocean life. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1941. 316 p.
QH92.C3
Carson, Rachel, Lois Darling, and Louis Darling. Silent spring. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Cambridge, MA, Riverside Press, 1962.
368 p.
Bibliography: p. 299-355.
QH545.P4C38 1962
Carson, Rachel, Dorothy Freeman, and Martha E. Freeman. Always,
Rachel: the letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964. Boston, Beacon Press, c1995. 567 p.
Bibliography: p. 547-551.
QH31.C33A4 1995
Carson, Rachel, and Linda J. Lear. Lost woods: the discovered
writing of Rachel Carson. Boston, Beacon Press, c1998. 267 p.
QH81.C3546 1998
Carson, Rachel, and Charles Pratt. The rocky coast. New York,
McCall Pub. Co., 1971. 118 p.
QH541.5.S35C37 1971
"The complete text first appeared as a chapter entitled 'The rocky shores'
in The edge of the sea."
Carson, Rachel, and Charles Pratt. The sense of wonder. New York,
Harper & Row, 1965, c1956. 89 p.
QH51.C35
Text first appeared in Woman's home companion under title "Help your child
to wonder."
Rachel Carson Publications by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (Alaska Wildlife Library and Information Service)
Includes Adobe Acrobat versions of articles from Conservation
bulletin, and Conservation in action.
http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/RachelCarson/
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SILENT SPRING
And no birds sing: rhetorical analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent spring. Edited by Craig Waddell. Carbondale, IL, Southern Illinois University Press,
c2000. 232 p.
Includes bibliographical references
QH545.P4C3833 2000
Briggs, Shirley Ann. Silent spring: the view from 1987. Chevy
Chase, MD, Rachel Carson Council, c1987. 20 p.
Issued in the 25th anniversary year of the publishing of Rachel Carson's Silent
spring.
Bibliography: p. 19-20.
SB950.2.A1B75 1987
Graham, Frank. Since Silent spring. Boston, Houghton-Mifflin,
1970. 333 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
QH75.G68
Hynes, H. Patricia. The recurring silent spring. New York, Pergamon
Press, 1989. 227 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
QH545.P4H96 1989
MacGillivray, Alex. Rachel Carson's Silent spring. Hauppauge,
NY, Barron's, 2004. 128 p.
Bibliography: p. 124-125.
QH545.P4C3836 2004
Murphy, Priscilla Coit. What a book can do: the publication
and reception of Silent spring. Amherst, University of Massachusetts
Press, c2005. 254 p.
Bibliography: p. 223-250.
QH545.P4M87 2005
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): The Story of Silent
Spring.
http://www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/hcarson.asp
Silent spring revisited. Edited by Gino J. Marco, Robert M. Hollingworth,
and William Durham. Washington, American Chemical Society, 1987.
214 p.
Based on a symposium on the topics posed in Rachel Carson's Silent
spring,
held in Philadelphia, Aug. 1984.
Includes bibliographical references.
QH545.P4S55 1987
Wild reckoning: an anthology provoked by Rachel Carson's
Silent spring. Edited by John Burnside and Maurice Riordan. London, Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation, c2004. 254 p.
PR1195.N3W55 2004
"Seventeen of these poems were commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
to mark the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring ..."
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RACHEL CARSON AND HER INFLUENCE
Archer, Jules. Rachel Carson. In his To save the earth: the American environmental
movement. New York, Viking, 1998. p. 46-85.
Bibliography: p.189-191.
GE55.A73 1998
Brooks, Paul. Speaking for nature: how literary naturalists
from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson have shaped America. Boston, Houghton
Mifflin Co., 1980. 304 p.
Bibliography: p. 289-294.
QH26.B68
Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers. Our
stolen future: are we threatening our fertility, intelligence,
and survival?: a scientific detective story. New York, Dutton,
c1996. 306 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
RA1224.2.C65 1996
Free, Ann Cottrell, Albert Schweitzer, and Rachel Carson. Since
Silent spring: our debt to Albert Schweitzer & Rachel Carson:
an address. Washington, Flying Fox Press, c1992. 18 p.
HC79.E5F696 1992
Gartner, Carol B. Rachel Carson. New York, Ungar Pub. Co.,
c1983. 161 p.
Bibliography: p. 151-153.
QH31.C33G37 1983
Holmes, Madelyn. Rachel Carson (1907-1964). In her American
women conservationists: twelve profiles. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, c2004.
p. 115-139.
QH26.H66 2004
Lear, Linda J. Rachel Carson: witness for nature. New York, H. Holt, 1997.
634 p.
Bibliography: p. 585-609.
QH31.C33L43 1997
McCay, Mary A. Rachel Carson. New York, Twayne Publishers; Toronto,
Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York, Maxwell Macmillan International,
c1993. 122 p.
Bibliography: p. 115-117.
QH31.C33M34 1993
Online Ethics Center: Rachel Carson and Silent Spring.
Biographical information including information about the writing of Silent
spring, and links relating to pesticides.
http://onlineethics.org/moral/carson/index.html
Quaratiello, Arlene Rodda. Rachel Carson: a biography. Westport,
CT, Greenwood Press, 2004. 138 p.
QH31.C33Q37 2004
Rachel Carson: a Conservation Legacy (US Fish & Wildlife
Service).
http://www.fws.gov/rachelcarson/
Steingraber, Sandra. Living downstream: an ecologist looks
at cancer and the environment. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley Publishing,
c1997. 357 p.
Bibliography: p. 277-340.
RC268.25.S74 1997
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SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Alexander, Charles. Breaking the silence on DDT. Time, v. 161, Mar. 31,
2003: A36.
AP2.T37
http://www.time.com/time/80days/620927.html
Bekoff, Marc, and Jan Nystrom. The other side of silence: Rachel
Carson's views of animals. Zygon, v. 39, Dec. 2004: 861-883.
BL240.2.Z9
Bryson, Michael A. Nature, narrative, and the scientist-writer:
Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's critique of science. Technical
communication quarterly, v. 12, fall 2003: 369-387.
T11.T299
Cafaro, Philip. Rachel Carson's environmental ethics. Worldviews: environment,
culture, religion, v. 6, no. 1, 2002: 58-80.
BL65.N35W674
http://onlineethics.org/moral/carson/cafaro.html
Cone, Marla. The unbroken
chain: on Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and a question for our
times: how safe do we want to be? Columbia journalism review, v. 44, July/Aug.
2005: 65-68.
PN4700.C64
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/4/secondread.asp
Corbett, Julia B. Women, scientists, agitators: magazine portrayal
of Rachel Carson and Theo Colborn. Journal of communication, v.
51, Dec. 2001: 720-749.
P87.J6
Curran, Giorel. Whither environmentalism? Environmental politics
in the 21st century. Social alternatives, v. 25, second quarter,
2006: 48-53.
HN841.S65
Cushman, John H., Jr. After 'Silent spring,' industry put spin
on all it brewed. New York times, Mar. 26, 2001: A14.
http://www.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806EFDB103CF935A15750C0A9679C8B63
Dorsey, Ellen, and Marie Thormodsgard. Rachel Carson warned us.
Ms., v. 12, winter 2002: 42-45.
HQ1101.M5514
Jones, Gordon S. The destructive legacy of Rachel Carson. Human
events, v. 58, Aug. 26, 2002: 11.
D410.H8
Kneeshaw, Stephen. Biography as environmental "herstory." OAH
magazine of history, v. 20, Jan. 2006: 20-24.
E175.8.M34
Matthiessen, Peter. Rachel Carson. Time, v. 153, Mar. 29, 1999:
187-189.
AP2.T37
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/carson.html
Michaels, David. Environmental health science and the legacy
of popular literature. Environmental health perspectives, v. 111,
Jan. 2003: A14-A15.
RA565.A1 E13
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1241318&blobtype=pdf
Moore, Kathleen Dean. The truth of the barnacles: Rachel Carson
and the moral significance of wonder. Environmental ethics, v.
27, fall 2006: 265-277.
GF80.E58
Newell, Diana. Home truths: women writing science in the nuclear
dawn. European journal of American culture, v. 22, no. 3: 193-203.
Electronic format in Academic Search Premier
Seager, Joni. Rachel Carson died of breast cancer: the coming
of age of feminist environmentalism. Signs: journal of women
in culture & society, v. 28, spring 2003: 945-972.
HQ1101.S5
Smith, Michael B. 'Silence, Miss Carson!' science, gender, and
the reception of 'Silent spring'. Feminist studies, v. 27, fall
2001: 733-752.
HQ1101.F46
Solnit, Rebecca. Three who made a revolution. Nation, v. 282,
Apr. 3, 2006: 29-32.
AP2.N2
Watson, Bruce. Sounding the alarm. Smithsonian, v. 33, Sept.
2002: 115-117.
AS30.S6
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2002/september/presence.php
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FOR YOUNGER READERS
Bowdish, Lynea. With courage: seven women who changed America. New York,
Mondo, c2004. 48 p.
HQ1412.B66 2004
Summary: 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.
Burby, Liza N. Rachel Carson: writer and environmentalist. New
York, PowerKids Press, 1997. 24 p.
QH91.3.C3B87 1997
Byrnes, Patricia. Environmental pioneers. Minneapolis, Oliver
Press, c1998. 160 p.
Bibliography: p. 151-152.
GE55.B97 1998
Summary: 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.
Gow, Mary. Rachel Carson: ecologist and activist. Berkeley Heights,
NJ, Enslow Publishers, c2005. 128 p.
Bibliography: p. 124-125.
QH31.C33A42 2005
Harlan, Judith. Sounding the alarm: a biography of Rachel
Carson. Minneapolis, Dillon Press, c1989. 128 p.
Bibliography: p. 122-125.
QH31.C33H37 1989
Landau, Elaine. Rachel Carson and the environmental movement. New York, Children's Press, c2004. 48 p.
Bibliography: p. 46.
QH31.C33L36 2004
Summary: 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."
Latham, Jean Lee, and Victor Mays. Rachel Carson, who loved
the sea. New York, Chelsea Juniors, 1991. 80 p.
QH91.3.C3L37 1991
Originally published Champaign, IL, Garrard Pub. Co., 1973.
Locker, Thomas, and Joseph Bruchac. Rachel Carson: preserving
a sense of wonder. Golden, CO, Fulcrum Pub., c2004. 30 p.
QH31.C33L63 2004
Summary: A biography of Rachel Carson interspersed with her own memorable quotes.
Ransom, Candice F., and Shelly O. Haas. Listening to crickets: a story
about Rachel Carson. Minneapolis, Carolrhoda Books, c1993. 64 p.
Bibliography: p. 62-64.
QH31.C33R36 1993
Ravage, Barbara. Rachel Carson: protecting our environment. Austin,
TX, Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1997. 111 p.
Bibliography: p. 108-109.
QH31.C33R38 1997
Schlank, Carol Hilgartner, Barbara Metzger, and David A. Katz.
A clean sea: the Rachel Carson story: a biography for young
children. Culver City, CA, Cascade Pass, 1994. 38 p.
QH31.C33S34 1994
Shea, George. Rachel Carson: founder of the environmental
movement. Farmington Hills, MI, Blackbirch Press; Detroit, Thomson/Gale,
c2006. 64 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
QH31.C33S44 2006
Stewart, Melissa. Rachel Carson: writer and biologist. Chicago,
Ferguson Pub. Co., c2001. 127 p.
Bibliography: p. 123-124.
QH31.C33S74 2001
Tremblay, E. A. Rachel Carson: author/ecologist. Philadelphia,
Chelsea House Publishers, c2003. 118 p.
Bibliography: p. 108.
QH31.C33T74 2003
Wadsworth, Ginger. Rachel Carson, voice for the earth. Minneapolis, Lerner
Publications, c1992. 128 p.
Bibliography: p. 123.
QH31.C33W34 1991
Wheeler, Leslie. Rachel Carson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Silver
Burdett Press, c1991. 138 p.
Bibliography: p. 126-127.
QH31.C33W44 1991
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SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES
Rachel Carson Homestead.
Works to preserve the National Register historic site in Springdale, PA. Includes
resource links, biography, and visitor information.
http://www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org/
Rachel Carson Institute.
Located at Chatham College, Pittsburg, PA, her alma mater. Programs promote
environmental awareness.
http://www.chatham.edu/RCI/
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge.
Preserves marshland along the coast of Maine. Information about Rachel Carson
includes a video and excerpts from her writings.
http://www.fws.gov/northeast/rachelcarson/
Rachel Carson.org.
Devoted to the life and legacy of Rachel Carson.
http://www.rachelcarson.org/
Rachel Carson: Pen against Poison. U.S. Department of
State's Bureau of International Information Programs, Mar. 2007.
20 p.
http://www.america.gov/publications/books/rachel-carson-pen-against-poison.html
Rachel Carson Society (Sierra Club).
http://www.sierraclub.org/giftplanning/rachelcarson/default.aspx
Silent Spring Institute (Newton, MA).
Dedicated to identifying the links between the environment and women's health,
especially breast cancer.
http://www.silentspring.org/
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OTHER RESOURCES
Dorothy Freeman Collection. Edmund S. Muskie Archives & Special
Collections Library, Bates College, Lewiston, ME.
Correspondence in the collection documents the friendship of Dorothy Freeman
and Rachel Carson.
http://abacus.bates.edu/muskie-archives/EADFindingAids/MC041.html
Rachel Carson Papers. American Literature Collection, Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Rachel Carson
papers, 1921-1989.
Bequest of Rachel Carson, 1965; later gifts from Houghton Mifflin Company and
Marie Rodell.
http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/beinecke.CARSON.con.html
Compiled by Susan Westerberg Cole
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