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The legacy Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
Country Life UK
|July 16, 2025
The sea, the sea
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Carson wrote a trilogy of books about the sea. The second, The Sea Around Us (1951), essentially a biography of the oceans that presciently tackled the 21st-century issues of rising sea levels and melting glaciers, brought her to international prominence; it won a National Book award and was translated into 30 languages. Her first treat with the money she earned was a good binocular-microscope
RACHEL CARSON (1907-64), the American aquatic biologist and writer, didn’t live to see the influence of her seminal work,
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