Books By and About Rachel Carson

 

Rachel Carson's own books are:

 

• Silent Spring
• Under the Sea Wind
• The Sea Around Us
• The Edge of the Sea
• The Sense of Wonder (published posthumously)

 

Definitive biography:

• Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature, by Linda Lear

 

Other classic biography:

• House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work, by Paul Brooks

 

Others:

• Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson, by Carson and Linda Lear
• Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964, edited by Martha Freeman
• Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Alex MacGillivray
• What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring, Priscilla Coit Murphy

 

 

Children's book:

• Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson, by Amy Ehrlich

 

Books that inspired Rachel Carson:

• The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod, by Henry Beston
• Salar the Salmon, Tarka the Otter, and other writings by Henry Williamson

 

Essay

• One Patriot, by Terry Tempest Williams, in Patriotism and the American Land