On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder

On a Farther Shore:  The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder is a 496-page hardcover published by Crown Publishers, New York.  Copyright 2012.  Stated First Edition. Book Summary She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us.  But it was her fourth book, Silent Spring, that this unassuming biologist transformed out relationship with the natural world. Rachel Carson began work on Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use.  Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT, whose inventor won the Nobel Prize for its discovery.  Published in 1962, Silent Spring shocked the public and forced the government to take action--despite a withering attack on Carson from the chemicals industry.   Elegantly written and meticulously researched, On a Farther Shore reveals a shy yet passionate woman more at home in the natural world than in the literary one that embraced her.  William Souder also writes sensitively of Carson's romantic friendship with Dorothy Freeman, and of Carson's death from cancer in 1964.  This extraordinary biography captures the essence of one of the great reformers of the twentieth century. ISBN:  978-0-307-46220-6