Part III of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 series on the environmental impact of DDT and other pesticides.
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson is the author of the best-seller “Silent Spring” and “The Sea Around Us,” which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.
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Part II of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 series on the environmental impact of DDT and other pesticides.
Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 piece on the environmental impact of DDT and other pesticides.
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