Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PROLOGUE -- One: SPRING: Sense of Wonder: Under the Sea-Wind -- Two: SUMMER: Florescence: The Sea Around Us -- Three: FALL: The Fullness of Life: From The Edge of the Sea to DDT -- Four: WINTER: The Poison Book and the Dark Season of Vindication -- EPILOGUE: Rachel Carson: The Legacy -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact biography of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision. We follow Carson from her childhood on a farm
