false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173886855m/340134.jpg 340134 3 In her lifetime, Rachel Carson published only four books. She was a careful writer and meticulous researcher, for one thing, and she worked as a government scientist until the success of books like <I>Silent Spring</I> and <I>The Sea Around Us</I> enabled her to turn to her own writing full-time. She also published several magazine pieces, many of which biographer Linda Lear gathers here, along with letters and journal entries. In one piece that is characteristic both of her modesty and of her wit, Carson remarks on her then-unusual status of being an "average-sized woman" and a scientist, one who had just become "a biographer of the sea." In another, Carson writes of the necessity of protecting shorelines from economic development that would hasten their erosion and subsequent destruction. Carson's many fans will take much pleasure in this anthology of her work. <I>--Gregory McNamee</I> 1297847 1998 Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson total:19|5:8|4:9|3:1|2:1|1:0| 19 81 50 2 4 0 false false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 09:16:17 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 09:17:31 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 28 19:03:08 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 19:35:59 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 21:03:33 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 21:03:33 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 12 07:49:34 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 07:49:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 27 12:50:58 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 12:51:02 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Sep 25 17:27:36 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 17:27:36 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Aug 30 08:06:37 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 08:06:37 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 20:07:10 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 23:34:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 04 08:11:23 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 08:11:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 09:55:20 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 09:55:20 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jul 24 10:57:39 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 10:57:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 22 14:51:07 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 14:51:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 24 20:42:24 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 20:42:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 14 19:45:13 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 19:45:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 01 19:11:21 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 19:11:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 19 08:17:05 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 08:17:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 17 18:44:17 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 18:44:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 10 19:43:42 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 19:43:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 08 22:17:25 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 22:17:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 06 14:45:33 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 14:45:40 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=340134