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La mer autour de nous
Rachel Carson
- Wildproject
- Petite Bibliotheque D'ecologie Populaire
- 5 Mai 2023
- 9782381140605
Qu'est-ce qui forme les vagues ? Comment fonctionnent les courants ? Pourquoi la mer change-t-elle de couleur ? ...
Plus d'un demi-siècle après sa publication, La Mer autour de nous demeure la synthèse de référence en écologie marine. La capacité de Carson à saisir et raconter l'océan comme un tout vivant fait de ce livre un guide irremplaçable, tant pour les néophytes que pour les chercheurs.
Vendu à 1 000 000 d'exemplaires, traduit en trente langues, cet ouvrage vibrant et passionné, destiné au grand public, a influencé plusieurs générations.
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Premier ouvrage sur le scandale des pesticides, Printemps silencieux a entraîné l'interdiction du DDT aux États- Unis. Cette victoire historique d'un individu contre les lobbies de l'industrie chimique a déclenché au début des années 1960 la naissance du mouvement écologiste.
Printemps silencieux est aussi l'essai d'une écologue et d'une vulgarisatrice hors pair. En étudiant l'impact des pesticides sur le monde vivant, du sol aux rivières, des plantes aux animaux, et jusqu'à nos cellules et notre ADN, ce livre constitue l'exposition limpide, abordable par tous, d'une vision écologique du monde.
Avec plus de 2 000 000 d'exemplaires vendus, Printemps silencieux est un monument de l'histoire culturelle et sociale du 20e siècle.
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a preface by World Wildlife Fund founder Julian Huxley, and an afterword by Carson's biographer Linda Lear. 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. It is thanks to this book, and the help of many environmentalists, that harmful pesticides such as DDT were banned from use in the US and countries around the world. 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. If you enjoyed Silent Spring, you might like John Christopher's The Death of Grass , also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Carson's books brought ecology into popular consciousness' Daily Telegraph 'Very few books change the course of history. Those that do include Silent Spring ' Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
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In The Edge of the Sea Rachel Carson introduces us to the ''strange and beautiful place'' where the sea meets the land. She explores a tide pool, an inaccessible cave, and watches a lone crab on the shore at midnight. From these, and other, encounters she offers us not just a scientifically accurate study of the ecology of the seashore, but also a hauntingly beautiful account of the fragile balance of life found at the edge of the sea. The Edge of the Sea , like all her writing, sounds a prophetic alarm for the damage mankind is doing to the natural world, but also offers us inspiration: here is beauty, here is something worth saving.
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The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only she could, to take us from the creation of the oceans, through their role in shaping life on Earth, to what the future holds. It was prophetic at the time it was written, alerting the world to a crisis in the climate, and it speaks to the fragility and centrality of the oceans and the life that abounds within them.>
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Printemps silencieux (3e édition)
Rachel Carson
- Wildproject
- Domaine Sauvage
- 31 Mai 2014
- 9782918490272
Premier ouvrage jamais écrit sur le scandale des pesticides, Printemps silencieux a entraîné l'interdiction du DDT aux États-Unis. Cette victoire historique d'un individu contre les lobbies de l'industrie chimique a déclenché au début des années 1960 la naissance du mouvement écologiste.
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La vie est née dans l'océan. Tout organisme vivant est composé d'une énorme quantité d'eau, et à l'inverse, l'océan, avec ses milliards de protistes par millimètre cube, est un véritable «gel vivant». Dans Planète Mer, Rachel Carson réalise une vaste synthèse, vibrante, réunissant toutes les connaissances de son époque, de la biochimie jusqu'à l'écologie marine. Contre la fragmentation contemporaine du savoir spécialisé, cet ouvrage est aujourd'hui une référence emblématique, et un livre-symbole.
C'est grâce à la biologie marine que la fondatrice de l'écologie a pu identifier et comprendre la dimension planétaire de l'enjeu des pesticides, qu'elle développa ensuite dans Printemps silencieux. De sorte qu'on peut affirmer que l'écologie, elle aussi, provient de la matrice océanique.
Une authentique vision écologique du monde passe nécessairement par la compréhension du monde océanique. Et notre avenir passe nécessairement par la préservation des océans.
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Under the Sea-Wind marks the beginnings of one of the most significant careers in nature writing. In it Rachel Carson celebrates the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, conjuring the atmosphere of the shore and the open sea and the delicately balanced, fragile struggle for life along the shoreline.>
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THE SEA TRILOGY (LOA #352) - UNDER THE SEA-WIND - THE SEA AROUND US - THE EDGE OF THE SEA
Rachel Carson
- Library of america
- 21 Décembre 2021
- 9781598537055
B>Pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson explores the wonders of the Earth''s oceans in these classics of American science and nature writing./b>br>br>Rachel Carson is perhaps most famous as the author of Silent Spring, but she was first and foremost a "poet of the sea" and the three books collected in this deluxe Library of America volume are classics of American science and nature writing. br/>br/>b>Under the Sea-Wind/b> (1941), Carson''s lyrical debut, offers an intimate account of maritime ecology through the eyes of three of the ocean''s denizens, the individual lives of sanderling, mackerel, and eel dramatically intertwined in the enduring ebb and flow of the tides. br/>br/>b>The Sea Around Us/b> (1951)--a winner of the National Book Award--draws on a wealth of oceanographic, meteorological, biological, and historical research to present its subject on a grand, biospheric scale, revealing not only many mysteries of the still-unfathomed depths, but a reverence for the sea as a source of global climate and of life itself.br/>br/>Concluding Carson''s "sea trilogy," b>The Edge of the Sea /b>(1955) explores the habits of the many small creatures that live on shorelines and in tidepools accessible to any beachcomber: part identification guide, part hymn to ecological complexity, it is a book that conveys the "sense of wonder" in nature for which Carson is justly celebrated.br/>br/>At a moment when overfishing, pollution, and global warming are causing catastrophic changes to marine environments worldwide, Carson''s lyrically detailed accounts of these environments offer a timely reminder of their beauty, fragility, and immense consequence for human life.
