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The Sense of Wonder

Rachel Carson

  • 89 pages · about 1 hour
  • First published 1956
  • 19 editions
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1 About this book

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Good for readers who want: nature, a true life story, and a short read.

  • Nature study
  • Nature
  • Natural history, united states
  • Nature and nurture
  • Human beings, effect of environment on
  • Environmental sciences
  • Biography
  • Science & Technology

2 About Rachel Carson

1907–1964

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement. Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s.

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