To write Under the Sea-Wind, her first book, Carson lay on the beaches of Beaufort, North Carolina, and “felt the waves, listened to the birds, and imagined what was going on,” says Robert Musil, the ...

Rachel Carson grew up on a small Pennsylvania ... In 1941, she published Under the Sea-Wind, her first book. She was a quiet, private person, fascinated with the workings of nature from a ...

Like many activists of the '60s, Rachel Carson ... Orange herbicide.] Carson's publishers stand by her work, but get a toxicologist to check her facts before the book is shipped.

Rachel Carson is the author of the best-seller “Silent Spring” and “The Sea Around Us,” which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential ...