It had a foreword by conservationist and ornithologist Peter Scott
(though he disliked the choice of title, thinking it too gimmicky for serious scientists). EH
's relationship (by marriage) to Aldous Huxley
, author of...
Textual Features
Gwen Moffat
This book deals with Snowdonia, and opens in GM
's regular memoir style, with her return there after the end of her second marriage. The statistics of my life at this time were: one...
Textual Features
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
In the collection's title poem, The Sun-fish, ENC
illustrates in sombre and graphic detail the commercial harvest of basking sharks for the oil contained in their liver. The sharks are sympathetically described as intermittently-appearing...
Timeline
27 September 1962: Rachel Carson published her Silent Spring...
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27 September 1962
Rachel Carson
published her Silent Spring in the USA, to immediate public response.
Guardian Weekly.
(14 December 1997): 18
McKie, Robin. “How to spread confusion”. Guardian Weekly, 3 Sept. 2010, pp. 38-9.
