On a Farther Shore
The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
This is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, the unassuming biologist who transformed our relationship with the natural world and became the founder of the environmental movement. With the publication of Silent Spring, Carson awakened the world to the heedless contamination of the environment and opened a fault line between the gentle ideal of conservation and the more urgent new concept of environmentalism. Her work eventually led to the establishment of the EPA and to the banning of DDT and a host of related pesticides. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, this extraordinary biography reveals a shy yet passionate woman more at home in the natural world than in the literary one that embraced her, and with it, Souder has captured the essence of one of the great reformers of the twentieth century.
