Lost Woods

When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life.

Introduction
Part One
1 Undersea

2 My Favorite Recreation

3 Fight for Wildlife Pushes Ahead/
Chesapeake Eels Seek the Sargasso Sea

4 Ace of Nature's Aviators

5 Road of the Hawks,

6 An Island I Remember

7 Mattamuskeet: A National Wildlife Refuge

Part Two, 51
8 Memo to Mrs. Eales on Under the Sea- Wind

9 Lost Worlds: The Challenge of the Islands

10 New York Herald- Tribune Book and Author Luncheon
Speech

11 Jacket Notes for the RCA Victor Recording of Claude
Debussy's La Mer/National Symphony Orchestra
Speech

12 Remarks at the Ac cep tance of the National Book Award
for Nonfi ction

13 Design for Nature Writing

14 Mr. Day's Dismissal

15 Preface to the Second Edition of The Sea Around Us

Part Three
16 Our Ever- Changing Shore

17 Four Fragments from Carson's Field Notebooks

18 The Edge of the Sea

19 The Real World Around Us

20 Biological Sciences

21 Two letters to Dorothy and Stanley Freeman

22 The Lost Woods. A Letter to Curtis and
Nellie Lee Bok

23 Clouds

Part Four

24 Vanishing Americans

25 To Understand Biology/
Preface to Animal Machines

26 A Fable for Tomorrow

27 Women's National Press Club Speech

28 A New Chapter to Silent Spring

29 Letter to Dr. George Crile, Jr.

30 The Pollution of Our Environment

31 Letter to Dorothy Freeman

Credits,
Acknowledgements
Index