失われた森 レイチェル・カーソン遺稿集 (集英社文庫) [文庫]

名著『沈黙の春』のR・カーソン未公表原稿集！　優れた科学者、文筆家であった彼女の新たな原稿や書簡を発掘。現代エコロジーの原点を、生命への畏敬の念と共に歩んだ一人の人間の心の旅路を通じつづる。
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研究者リンダ・リアが、未発表原稿を編集し、カーソンの地球、自然への魂の声を集大成した書。

20世紀の初めに生まれ、いち早く生命への畏敬に気付き、行動したレイチェル・カーソン。彼女の残した多くの埋没原稿と書簡で綴る、現代エコロジーの原点とも言うべきひとりの人間の精神史。 --このテキストは、 単行本 版に関連付けられています。

In her lifetime, Rachel Carson published only four books. She was a careful writer and meticulous researcher, for one thing, and she worked as a government scientist until the success of books like Silent Spring and The Sea Around Us enabled her to turn to her own writing full-time. She also published several magazine pieces, many of which biographer Linda Lear gathers here, along with letters and journal entries. In one piece that is characteristic both of her modesty and of her wit, Carson remarks on her then-unusual status of being an "average-sized woman" and a scientist, one who had just become "a biographer of the sea." In another, Carson writes of the necessity of protecting shorelines from economic development that would hasten their erosion and subsequent destruction. Carson's many fans will take much pleasure in this anthology of her work. --Gregory McNamee
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If fleeting sketches can sometimes say more than the fully realized work, this collection of journal entries, a TV script, speeches and articles by one of the pioneers of the modern environmental movement gracefully delivers. Pieces on the destruction of unique island eco-systems, the connection of music to nature and environmental "managed care" of waterfowl refuges offer sad testament to Carson's range, never to be further explored due to her early death from breast cancer, in 1964. Written with mesmeric intensity, Carson's first piece of published adult work, "Undersea," was accepted by the Atlantic in 1935. Reprinted here, it reveals her lasting obsession not only with the sea but with the antiquity and majestic continuity of life on earth. Her other famous passion, exposing the ravaging effects of pesticides, which was devastatingly depicted in her 1962 classic, Silent Spring, is defended here in a speech that marks the maturity of her voice. Highly informed and occasionally withering, this refutation of her big-business critics reveals the nasty arena she felt forced to enter. In other speeches, Carson, a trained biologist, laments the perceived distance between science and a language that can touch nonscientific people. For a TV script on the subject of clouds, she states, in a delicate synthesis of fact and poetry, "They are the writing of the wind on the sky." The careful gathering of fragments by Lear (author of the 1997 biography Rachel Carson), if presented a little too reverently, gives rare glimpses of Carson's personal vulnerability and of her strange fusion of restraint and fervor, offering a frequent sense of being in Carson's company.
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Edited and with an Introduction by Linda Lear

This trove of previously uncollected writings by the author of Silent Spring is a priceless addition to our knowledge of the great environmentalist and her life.

"[Carson's] writing still sparkles. . . . This book should be required reading."
-Bill Sharp, The New York Times Book Review
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カーソン,レイチェル
1907年アメリカ合衆国ペンシルヴェニア州生まれ。大学では動物学を学び、36年農務省漁業局に就職、のち内務省魚類・野生生物局勤務となり、野生生物保護活動に携わりながらも執筆を続ける。62年農薬の害を告発する『沈黙の春』を発表、全世界に大反響を巻き起こした。1964年メリーランド州シルバースプリングで死去(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)