FYI...Stefanie ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 20:00:54 -0500 From: Rachel Carson Homestead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We are pleased to announce the release of "Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature" (Henry Holt and Company), by Linda Lear, the long-awaited biography of the courageous ecologist and nature writer whose book "Silent Spring" began a movement that transformed the way we understand ourselves and the living world. "The splendid, definitive biography we have been waiting for."- Stewart L. Udall, former Secretary of the Interior By drawing on previously unavailable sources and on interviews with those who knew her, Linda Lear gives a compelling portrait of Carson's connection with nature and of her determination to save what she loved. "...The definitive biography of one of the most important Americans of the twentieth century."- Edward O. Wilson Linda Lear is a native of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania and grew up not far from Rachel Carson's childhood homestead. Lear is currently Research Professor of Environmental History at George Washington University and a research collaborator in the Office of Smithsonian Institution Archives. Lear served as a historical consultant for the PBS documentary "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring." "The more time passes, the larger Rachel Carson looms...This book could not come at a better time...Would that we had someone of her stature to turn the tide, to remind us of how precious and how vulnerable the threatened world really is."- Bill McKibben The Rachel Carson Homestead is Rachel Carson's birthplace and childhood home, where her early years nurtured a love and respect for nature that would guide her for the rest of her life. The Rachel Carson Homestead Association preserves, restores, and interprets her Springdale birthplace; offers education programs which advance her environmental ethic; and serves as an international resource for information about her life and work. "Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature" is available directly from the Rachel Carson Homestead Association. All proceeds will be used to support our preservation efforts and education programs. Learn more on the World Wide Web at www.rachelcarson.org/witness.html ------------ Mark Tomlinson, Executive Director Rachel Carson Homestead 613 Marion Avenue Springdale, PA 15144 (412) 274-5459 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rachelcarson.org ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Department of Resource Management Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 56 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
