书名:Silent Spring 寂静的春天
难度:Lexile蓝思阅读指数1340
作者:Rachel Carson蕾切尔·卡逊
出版社名称:Penguin Classics
出版时间:2000
语种:英文
ISBN:9780141184944
商品尺寸:12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm
包装:平装
页数:324
Silent Spring《寂静的春天》是美国海洋生物学家蕾切尔·卡逊的代表作,该书以寓言开头,向我们描绘了一个美丽村庄的突变。并从陆地到海洋,从海洋到天空,全方位地揭示了化学农药的危害,是一本公认的开启了世界环境运动的奠基之作,它既贯穿着严谨求实的科学理性精神,又充溢着敬畏生命的人文情怀,被认为其引发的轰动比达尔文的《物种起源》都要大。本书为Penguin Classics推出的英文版,适合有一定英文基础的自热文学爱好者或英语学习者阅读。
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4.企鹅经典系列,由Lord Shacketon做导言介绍,有助于读者深入了解作者及写作背景。
Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Rachel Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement.
With an introduction by Lord Shacketon
Preface by Julian Huxley and an afterword by Linda Lear
Review
“Very few books change the course of history. Those that do includeSilent Spring.” —Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
“Carson’s books brought ecology into popular consciousness.” —Daily Telegraph
“Rachel Carson educated a planet... One of the most effective books ever written.” —Guardian
Silent Spring《寂静的春天》一书,作者以女性作家特有的生动笔触,详尽细致地讲述了以DDT为代表的杀虫剂的广泛使用,给我们的环境所造成的巨大的、难以逆转的危害。正是这个指向人类自身的潜在而又深远的威胁,让公众突然意识到环境问题十分严重,从而开启了群众性的现代环境保护运动。不仅如此,卡逊还尖锐的指出了,环境问题的深层根源在于人类对于自然的傲慢和无知,因此,她呼吁人们要重新端正对自然的态度,重新思考人类社会的发展道路问题。
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.
蕾切尔·卡逊,1907年5月27日生于匹兹堡附近的泉溪镇,1932年获约翰·霍布金斯大学生物学硕士学位,1936~1952年在美国鱼类与野生生物调查署工作。著作有《海风之下》(1941)、《我们周围的海》(1951)、《海之边缘》(1955)、《寂静的春天》(1962)。1963年入选美国艺术与科学学院院士。1964年4月14日因患癌症病逝。1980年被追授美国总统自由勋章。
Rachel Carson (1907-64) wanted to be a writer for as long as she could remember. Her first book, Under the Sea Wind, appeared in 1941. Silent Spring, which alerted the world to the dangers of the misuse of pesticides, was published in 1962. Carson’s articles on natural history appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, Reader’s Digest and Holiday. An ardent ecologist and preservationist, Carson warned against the dumping of atomic waste at sea and predicted global warming. The Edge of the Sea, which completed her biography of the sea, is also published in Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. Rachel Carson died of cancer at the age of 56.
Acknowledgements 致谢
Author’s Note作者的话
Introduction 序
Preface 前言
1 AFable for Tomorrow明天的寓言
2 The ObligationtoEndure忍耐的义务
3 Elixirs of Death死神的特效药
4 Surface Waters and Underground Seas地表水和地下海
5 Realms of the Soil土壤的王国
6 Earth’s Green Mantle地球的绿色斗篷
7 Needless Havoc不必要的大破坏
8 And No Birds Sing再也没有鸟儿歌唱
9 Rivers of Death死亡的河流
10 Indiscriminately from the Skies自天而降的灾难
11 Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias超过了波尔基业家族的梦想
12 The Human Price人类的代价
13 Through a Narrow Window通过一扇狭小的窗户
14 One in Every Four每四个中有一个
15 Nature Fights Back大自然在反抗
16 The Rumblings of an Avalanche崩溃声隆隆
17 The Other Road另外的道路
Afterword 后记
List of Principal Sources 主要文献来源目录
Index 索引
There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings.
Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler’s eye through much of the year. Even in winter the road- sides were places of beauty, where countless birds came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow. The country- side was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them. Others came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns.
Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. Someevil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death. The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. In the town the doctors had become more and more puzzled by new kinds of sickness appearing among their patients. There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours.
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评分这本书的语言风格,初读之下,确实带有一种那个时代特有的、沉稳而富有力量感的叙事腔调。它不是那种为了追求速度而牺牲深度的现代快餐式写作,每一个句子都仿佛经过了仔细的斟酌和打磨,信息密度相当高,需要放慢速度去细细咀嚼。我发现自己时不时地会停下来,回味某个精准的描述,那种将复杂的科学现象用近乎诗意的笔触表达出来的能力,实在令人叹服。我尤其欣赏作者在构建论点时所采用的层层递进的方式,她似乎有一种神奇的魔力,能把原本可能枯燥的科学事实,转化成引人入胜的推理故事。阅读过程就像是跟随一位技艺高超的侦探,一步步揭示隐藏在日常表象之下的真相。这种叙事技巧,极大地降低了非专业人士的阅读门槛,但同时又保持了对专业领域的尊重。它迫使我不仅仅是用“看”的方式阅读,更是要用“思考”和“感受”的方式去吸收,每一次重读,我都会发现一些先前忽略掉的微妙之处,这种发现的乐趣是其他媒介难以替代的。
评分从排版和字体选择上看,这个英文原版的设计非常人性化,考虑到篇幅较长,字体大小和行距的设置都非常适中,长时间阅读下来,眼睛的疲劳感明显减轻。这对于一本需要长时间沉浸其中的著作来说至关重要。书页的白度拿捏得也很好,既不是那种刺眼的纯白,也不是过于暗淡的泛黄,光线反射柔和,非常适合在不同光照环境下阅读。我特别留意了脚注和注释部分的布局,它们被巧妙地安置在页脚,既不打断主体阅读的流畅性,又能在需要时提供及时的背景补充或引文出处,显示出编辑团队在用户体验上的用心。这种细致入微的设计决策,反映了出版方对读者体验的重视,他们深知,对于这样一部重量级的作品,阅读体验本身就是成功抵达核心信息的重要载体。可以说,光是这本书的物理呈现,就已经是一次精心策划的“阅读旅程的开始”。
评分在阅读的过程中,我一直在思考作者在那个特定历史背景下,是如何积累出如此详尽的资料和如此坚定的信念的。这不仅仅是一本书,更像是一个时代的呐喊和对未来命运的深刻预警。我能感受到字里行间那种深沉的忧虑和一种近乎悲壮的使命感。作者的论证逻辑严密,每一个数据、每一个案例的引用都像是精密仪器测量出来的一样无可挑剔,但她最成功的地方在于,她没有将自己束缚在冰冷的科学术语中,而是用饱含同理心和敬畏之情去描绘我们所依赖的自然界。这种将“科学事实”与“人文情感”完美融合的笔法,赋予了这本书超越了纯粹科普作品的生命力。它不仅仅是告知我们“发生了什么”,更是深刻地追问我们“应该如何对待”我们所居住的世界,这种宏大的哲学思辨,让这本书的价值经久不衰。
评分坦白说,我是一个比较注重书籍“收藏价值”的读者。而这本企鹅经典的英文原版,无疑是书架上的一颗亮星。它的耐看性非常高,即便只是随意地摆放着,那种经典的黑色和白色配色,也散发出一种低调而永恒的知识气息。它的装帧质量意味着它能够承受多次翻阅,不易松散,这对于我这种喜欢在不同时间点带着不同的理解去重温经典的人来说,是最大的保障。它不仅仅是一次性的消费品,更像是可以代代相传的知识载体。我更看重的是,拥有这样一个高质量的实体版本,能够随时随地,不必依赖任何电子设备,就能重新沉浸到那个充满深刻洞察力的世界里。这种与实物互动的阅读体验,带来的满足感是任何数字版本都无法比拟的,它代表着对知识的尊重和对阅读本身的纯粹热爱。
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