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Author
Publisher
Propriometrics Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
".Through the Pacific Northwest forests and along the rugged coastal shores of California, Wolf Girl: Finding Myself in the Wild is a young environmentalist's coming-of-age story about learning, discovery, and survival. Wolf Girl takes readers on Doniga's journey: from the wilderness immersion school where she was taught by Indigenous elders and wildlife trackers, to hitchhiking across the Pacific Northwest, to Alaska, where she fell in love with...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, ... nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National Park in Utah, braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West"--Dust jacket...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explore the life and achievements of Rachel Carson. Photographs, a timeline, and easy-to-read text tell the story of this ground-breaking scientist who worked to protect the Earth.
Author
Publisher
Owl Book
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
The authoritative biography of the marine biologist and nature writer whose book Silent Spring inspired the global environmentalist movement. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962, did more than any other single publication to alert the world to the hazards of environmental poisoning and to inspire a powerful social movement that would alter the course of American history. This definitive, sweeping biography shows the origins of Carson's...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon"--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the life story of Rachel Carson, a biologist and environmentalist, covering her childhood, her years in college where she changed her career focus, and her most well-known works up until her death.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a child, Rachel Carson lived by the rhythms of the natural world. Spring after spring, year after year, she observed how all living things are connected. And as an adult, Rachel watched and listened as the natural world she loved so much began to fall silent. Spring After Spring traces Rachel's journey as scientist and writer, courageously speaking truth to an often hostile world through her book, and ultimately paving the way for the modern environmental...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oliver Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Profiles people who have been influential in the environmental movement: John Muir, Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling, Rosalie Edge, Aldo Leopold, Olaus and Margaret Murie, Rachel Carson, David Brower, and Gaylord Nelson.
20) Rachel Carson
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 619
Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English