Silent Spring: 40th Anniversary Edition

Copyright

First Mariner Books edition 2002

Copyright © 1962 by Rachel L. Carson

Copyright © renewed 1990 by Roger Christie

Introduction copyright © 2002 by Linda Lear

Afterword copyright © 2002 by Edward O. Wilson

All rights reserved

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

ISBN 0-618-25305-x

ISBN 0-618-24906-0 (pbk.)

Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling

Portions of this book were first published as a series of articles in The New Yorker.

Printed in the United States of America

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