Rachel Carson: Fighting Pesticides and Other Chemical Pollutants

by Patricia Lantier-Sampon and Patricia Lantier

Book Overview

Rachel Carson was a marine writer, biologist, and ecologist whose work inspired millions to take seriously the danger that human activity poses to the environment. She both revealed the wonders of the natural world and exposed the sinister threat to that world posed by DDT and other pesticides.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778746763
• ISBN13: 9780778746768
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Crabtree Classics
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9