Awards

Silent

Spring

By Rachel Carson

(One single book which brought the issue of pesticides centerstage. With mass scale poisoning of the land with pesticides and with thousands of farmers committing suicide this book is essential for public research in India.)

SILENT SPRING, winner of 8 awards*, is the history making bestseller that
stunned the world with its terrifying revelation about our contaminated planet. No science-
fiction nightmare can equal the power of this authentic and chilling portrait of the un-seen
destroyers which have already begun to change the shape of life as we know it.

“Silent Spring is a devastating attack on human carelessness, greed and

irresponsibility. It should be read by every American who does not want it to be the epitaph of

a world not very far beyond us in time.”

--- Saturday Review


*Awards received by Rachel Carson for SILENT SPRING:

• The Schweitzer Medal (Animal Welfare Institute)
• The Constance Lindsay Skinner Achievement Award for merit in the realm of books (Women’s National Book Association)
• Award for Distinguished Service (New England Outdoor Writers Association)
• Conservation Award for 1962 (Rod and Gun Editors of Metropolitan Manhattan)
• Conservationist of the Year (National Wildlife Federation)
• 1963 Achievement Award (Albert Einstein College of Medicine --- Women’s Division)
• Annual Founders Award (Isaak Walton League)
• Citation (International and U.S. Councils of Women)