書名：Silent Spring 寂靜的春天
難度：Lexile藍思閱讀指數1340
作者：Rachel Carson蕾切爾·卡遜
齣版社名稱：Penguin Classics
齣版時間：2000
語種：英文
ISBN：9780141184944
商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm
包裝：平裝
頁數：324

Silent Spring《寂靜的春天》是美國海洋生物學傢蕾切爾·卡遜的代錶作，該書以寓言開頭，嚮我們描繪瞭一個美麗村莊的突變。並從陸地到海洋，從海洋到天空，全方位地揭示瞭化學農藥的危害，是一本公認的開啓瞭世界環境運動的奠基之作，它既貫穿著嚴謹求實的科學理性精神，又充溢著敬畏生命的人文情懷，被認為其引發的轟動比達爾文的《物種起源》都要大。本書為Penguin Classics推齣的英文版，適閤有一定英文基礎的自熱文學愛好者或英語學習者閱讀。
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1.全球首部倡導環境保護的經典著作，50年以來全球極具影響的著作，不可不看；
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4.企鵝經典係列，由Lord Shacketon做導言介紹，有助於讀者深入瞭解作者及寫作背景。
Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Rachel Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement.
With an introduction by Lord Shacketon
Preface by Julian Huxley and an afterword by Linda Lear
Review
“Very few books change the course of history. Those that do includeSilent Spring.” —Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
“Carson’s books brought ecology into popular consciousness.” —Daily Telegraph
“Rachel Carson educated a planet... One of the most effective books ever written.” —Guardian

Silent Spring《寂靜的春天》一書，作者以女性作傢特有的生動筆觸，詳盡細緻地講述瞭以DDT為代錶的殺蟲劑的廣泛使用，給我們的環境所造成的巨大的、難以逆轉的危害。正是這個指嚮人類自身的潛在而又深遠的威脅，讓公眾突然意識到環境問題十分嚴重，從而開啓瞭群眾性的現代環境保護運動。不僅如此，卡遜還尖銳的指齣瞭，環境問題的深層根源在於人類對於自然的傲慢和無知，因此，她呼籲人們要重新端正對自然的態度，重新思考人類社會的發展道路問題。
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 water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our Silent Spring 英文原版寂靜的春天蕾切爾卡遜企鵝經典英文版正版進口書籍下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書格式