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Lost Woods by Rachel Carson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Canons Ser.
'Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.' Rachel Carson was one of the most important environmental thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. This collection brings together previously unpublished work, ess ...Show more
Man's War Against Nature (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Rachel Carson
$9.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Here, with the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fable, she reveals how man-made pesticides have destroyed wildlife, creating a world of polluted streams and silent songbirds.
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
"Carson's book has changed the world". ("The Times"). Impassioned, poetic and brilliantly written, "Silent Spring" is now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. In it, Rachel Carson exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread and indiscriminate use of pe ...Show more
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Penguin Classics
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and ...Show more
The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
$21.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. A new generation of readers is discovering why Rachel Carson's books have become corner ...Show more
The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Canons Ser.
"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. A new generation of readers is discovering why Rachel Carson's books have become corner ...Show more
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
$34.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Rachel Carson's classic trilogy comprises three volumes - The Sea Around Us (1950), Under the Wind-Sea (1941) and The Edge of the Sea (1955). The Sea Around Us presents an overview of the subject, a natural history of the oceans in which Rachel Carson discusses such matters as their origins, the evoluti ...Show more
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Canons Ser.
The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only she can, to take us from the creation of the oceans, through their role in shaping life on Earth, to wha ...Show more
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
$34.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Here is the strange story of the seas - how they were born, how life emerged from them, and the marine world within them. A new chapter by Jeffrey Levington brings the science up to date, and covers issues such as continental drift and the coral reefs.
Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson (illus Howard Frech)
$31.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"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.
Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Canons Ser.
Under the Sea-Wind marks the beginnings of one of the most significant careers in nature writing. In it Rachel Carson celebrates the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, conjuring the atmosphere of the shore and the open sea and the delicately balanced, fragile struggl ...Show more
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