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By Rachel Carson

"Chincoteague: A National Wildlife Refuge." United States Government Printing Office. 1947.

Edge of the Sea, The. Houghton Mifflin 1955; Mariner Books, 1998.

"Fish and Shellfish of the Middle Atlantic Coast." United States Government Printing Office. 1945.

"Fishes of the Middle West." United States Government Printing Office. 1943.

"Mattamuskeet: A National Wildlife Refuge." United States Government Printing Office. 1947.

"Parker River: A National Wildlife Refuge." United States Government Printing Office. 1947.

Sea Around Us, The. Oxford University Press, 1951; Oxford University Press, 1991.

Sense of Wonder, The. HarperCollins, 1998.

Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin, 1962; Mariner Books, 2002.

Under the Sea Wind. Simon & Schuster, 1941; Penguin Group, 1996.

By Carson and Others

Carson, Rachel, and Vanez T. Wilson. "Bear River: A National Wildlife Refuge." United States Government Printing Office. 1950. 

Freeman, Martha, Ed. Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman 1952–1964. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

Lear, Linda, ed. Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores, eds. Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2006.

ON-LINE 

Resources About Rachel Carson and Silent Spring

Cafaro, Philip. "Rachel Carson's Environmental Ethics." Online Ethics Center at Case Western University. http://onlineethics.org/moral/carson/index.html

Chatham University School of Sustainability and the Environment Rachel Carson Institute http://www.chatham.edu/RCI/

Great Barrier Reef for Rachel Carson http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases2004/dec04/noaa04-r499-03.html

Guide to the Rachel Carson Papers (Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University). http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083

Hurvitz, Tate. "A New Answer to the Same Dilemmas? 50 Years After Rachel Carson." Voice of San Diego 11 October 2012. http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/cafe-san-diego/silent-spring/article_f35384da-1277-11e2-b5fd-001a4bcf887a.html

"John Kerry on Progressivism." Interview (on five important books). http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-kerry-on-progressivism

Kroll, Gary. "Rachel Carson—Silent Spring: A Brief History of Ecology as a Subversive Subject." Online Ethics Center at Case Western University. http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/9174.aspx

Lear, Linda. "Rachel Carson and the Awakening of Environmental Consciousness." National Humanities Center. George Washington University. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntwilderness/essays/carson.htm

Natural Resources Defense Council, background on Silent Spring. http://www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/hcarson.asp

PBS biographical sketch on Silent Spring "The Science Odyssey - People and Discoveries" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/btcars.html

Rachel Caron Council http://www.rachelcarsoncouncil.org/

Rachel Carson Center http://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/index.html

Rachel Carson Greenway Trail http://www.montgomeryparks.org/PPSD/ParkTrails/trails_MAPS/Rachel_Carson_Greenway 

Rachel Carson Homestead http://www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org/

Rachel Carson House (Colesville, Maryland) http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2123&ResourceType=Building

Rachel Carson House (on Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson_House_(Colesville,_Maryland)

Rachel Carson Institute http://www.chatham.edu/rachelcarson/

Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=53553

Rachel Carson Obituary http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Rachel-Carson-Silent-Spring.htm

Rachel Carson on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson

Rachel Carson Organization http://www.rachelcarson.org/

Rachel Carson Papers [Yale University Library]. http://drs.library.yale.edu

Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy http://www.rachelcarsontrails.org/

Silent Spring Institute http://www.silentspring.org/

Tribute to Rachel Carson http://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/?p=2860

Wikiquote: Rachel Carson Quotations http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson

General Resources

American Society for Environmental History http://www.aseh.net/

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment http://www.asle.org/

Environmental History Timeline http://www.radford.edu/wkovarik/envhist/majorEvents.html

Environmental History: The Journal For the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), and The Forest History Society. http://environmentalhistory.net/index.htm

Environmental toxicology (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_toxicology

Environmental Working Group http://www.ewg.org/

Environmentalism (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary http://www.hawkmountain.org/

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment http://www.asle.org/site/publications/isle/

Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture http://www.religionandnature.com/journal/

National Conservation Training Center http://training.fws.gov/

NEW-CUE: Nature and Environmental Writers - College and University Educators http://www.new-cue.org

North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve http://www.ncnerr.org/pubsiteinfo/siteinfo/rachelcarson/rachel_carson.html

Resources for Research Ethics Education http://research-ethics.net

Society for Environmental Journalists http://www.sej.org

Women and the Environment Through History (Ecofeminism) http://wikigender.org/index.php/Women_and_the_Environment

Other Media

Living Downstream By Sandra Steingraber http://www.steingraber.com/

"Rachel Carson's Silent Spring." Peace River Films (for the American Experience) 1993 http://www.prfi.com/films/carson.shtml?films

"Rachel L. Carson's The Sea Around Us." Irwin Allen, TCM Movie Morlocks. http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/02/20/rachel-l-carson-as-interpreted-by-irwin-allen/