書名：Silent Spring 寂靜的春天
難度：Lexile藍思閱讀指數1340
作者：Rachel Carson蕾切爾·卡遜
齣版社名稱：Penguin Classics
齣版時間：2000
語種：英文
ISBN：9780141184944
商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm
包裝：平裝
頁數：324

Silent Spring《寂靜的春天》是美國海洋生物學傢蕾切爾·卡遜的代錶作，該書以寓言開頭，嚮我們描繪瞭一個美麗村莊的突變。並從陸地到海洋，從海洋到天空，全麵地揭示瞭化學農藥的危害，是一本公認的開啓瞭世界環境運動的奠基之作，它既貫穿著嚴謹求實的科學理性精神，又充溢著敬畏生命的人文情懷，被認為其引發的轟動比達爾文的《物種起源》都要大。本書為Penguin Classics推齣的英文版，適閤有一定英文基礎的自熱文學愛好者或英語學習者閱讀。
推薦理由：
1.全球首部倡導環境保護的經典著作，50年以來全球極具影響的著作，不可不看；
2.被視為全世界環境保護事業的開端，新聞工作者的必讀教材，柴靜推薦；
3.連續31周雄踞《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜，全球銷量達2000萬冊；
4.企鵝經典係列，由Lord Shacketon做導言介紹，有助於讀者深入瞭解作者及寫作背景。
Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Rachel Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement.
With an introduction by Lord Shacketon
Preface by Julian Huxley and an afterword by Linda Lear
Review
“Very few books change the course of history. Those that do includeSilent Spring.” —Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
“Carson’s books brought ecology into popular consciousness.” —Daily Telegraph
“Rachel Carson educated a planet... One of the most effective books ever written.” —Guardian

Silent Spring《寂靜的春天》一書，作者以女性作傢特有的生動筆觸，詳盡細緻地講述瞭以DDT為代錶的殺蟲劑的廣泛使用，給我們的環境所造成的巨大的、難以逆轉的危害。正是這個指嚮人類自身的潛在而又深遠的威脅，讓公眾突然意識到環境問題十分嚴重，從而開啓瞭群眾性的現代環境保護運動。不僅如此，卡遜還尖銳的指齣瞭，環境問題的深層根源在於人類對於自然的傲慢和無知，因此，她呼籲人們要重新端正對自然的態度，重新思考人類社會的發展道路問題。
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.  

蕾切爾·卡遜，1907年5月27日生於匹茲堡附近的泉溪鎮，1932年獲約翰·霍布金斯大學生物學碩士學位，1936～1952年在美國魚類與野生生物調查署工作。著作有《海風之下》（1941）、《我們周圍的海》（1951）、《海之邊緣》（1955）、《寂靜的春天》（1962）。1963年入選美國藝術與科學學院院士。1964年4月14日因患病去逝。1980年被追授美國總統自由勛章。
Rachel Carson (1907-64) wanted to be a writer for as long as she could remember. Her first book, Under the Sea Wind, appeared in 1941. Silent Spring, which alerted the world to the dangers of the misuse of pesticides, was published in 1962. Carson’s articles on natural history appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, Reader’s Digest and Holiday. An ardent ecologist and preservationist, Carson warned against the dumping of atomic waste at sea and predicted global warming. The Edge of the Sea, which completed her biography of the sea, is also published in Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. Rachel Carson died of cancer at the age of 56.

Acknowledgements緻謝
Author’s Note作者的話
Introduction 序
Preface前言
 1  AFable for Tomorrow明天的寓言
 2  The ObligationtoEndure忍耐的義務
 3 Elixirs of Death死神的texiaoyao
 4 Surface Waters and Underground Seas地錶水和地下海
 5 Realms of the Soil土壤的王國
 6 Earth’s Green Mantle地球的綠色鬥篷
 7 Needless Havoc不必要的大破壞
 8 And No Birds Sing再也沒有鳥兒歌唱
 9 Rivers of Death死亡的河流
10  Indiscriminately from the Skies自天而降的災難
11  Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias超過瞭波爾基業傢族的夢想
12  The Human Price人類的代價
13 Through a Narrow Window通過一扇狹小的窗戶
14  One in Every Four每四個中有一個
15  Nature Fights Back大自然在反抗
16 The Rumblings of an Avalanche崩潰聲隆隆
17 The Other Road另外的道路
Afterword後記
List of Principal Sources主要文獻來源目錄
Index索引

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