Helen Macdonald is the author of the acclaimed international best-seller,
H Is for Hawk. One of her six favorite books, as shared at
The Week magazine:
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
An indelibly powerful exposé of the terrible effects of pesticides, this 1962 book shaped the burgeoning environmental movement. Carson is a phenomenally important writer, and this book is more relevant than ever. We seem to have forgotten the lessons she taught.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
Silent Spring made a list of
the best books on global warming at the
Guardian in 2009. It is among
Tim Dee's ten best nature books,
Gill Lewis's ten top birds in books, and
John Kerry's five top books about progressivism.
--Marshal Zeringue
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