Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
- ISBN-10
- 0805034277
- ISBN-13
- 9780805034271
- Series
- Rachel Carson
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 634
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company
- Author
- Linda J. Lear
Description
A biography of the environmentalist chronicles her development from biologist and nature writer to muckraker and champion of ecological causes
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