Book Description
for Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World by Laurie Lawlor and Laura Beingessner
From the Publisher
Rachel Carson grew up in Pennsylvania, where her family owned 65 acres of forest, orchard, and fields where she learned to love exploring nature. The family struggled to send Rachel to college, and her scholarships helped her there and at Johns Hopkins University where she took her Master's degree. The Great Depression stopped her from staying in school and no one wanted to hire a female biologist. Finally the chief of the Bureau of Fisheries asked if she could rewrite radio scripts about sea life. One rejected radio script was accepted by Atlantic Magazine, which led to her first book, "Under the Sea-Wind". Meanwhile, Rachel was becoming concerned about the chemicals that were being sprayed in the air, dumped in the water, left in the soil. How would those chemicals affect nature and our lives?
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.