Your local public library likely has a copy of at least
Silent Spring, probably
The Sea Around Us, and maybe some of the others. Check with a new, used, or on-line bookstore, which may have some of these books in stock and can probably order ones they don't. All of these books are currently in print.
Silent Spring is also available on audiotape - check the "books on tape" section at your local library or bookstore or you can order it from us.
Under the Sea Wind
by Rachel L. Carson
New York, Oxford University Press (1941)
Under the Sea-Wind presents a naturalist's picture of ocean life. This book is her breathtaking canvas of the fierce, competitive struggle for life takes place along the shore, in the open sea, and along the sea bottom.
The Sea Around Us
by Rachel L. Carson
New York, Oxford University Press (1951)
The Sea Around Us is based on geographical evidence and is a study of the processes that formed the earth, the moon, and the oceans.
The Edge of the Sea
by Rachel Carson
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company (1955)
The Edge of the Sea is a practical guide to identifying the inhabitants of the sea and the marshes, tide pools, and shallows that border it - a world which mirrors the "spectacle of life in all its varied manifestations as it has appeared, evolved, died out."
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company (1962)
Silent Spring provided some of the first public evidence of how pesticides, used without proper control or knowledge, were poisoning our environment and had the potential to endanger our health.
The Sense of Wonder
by Rachel Carson
New York, Harper & Row (posthumous, 1965)
The Sense of Wonder, originally written as a 1950's magazine article called "Help Your Child to Wonder" and photo-illustrated after her death, details Carson's philosophy that adults need to nurture a child's inborn sense of wonder about the natural world.
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