書名:Silent Spring 寂靜的春天
難度:Lexile藍思閱讀指數1340
作者:Rachel Carson蕾切爾·卡遜
齣版社名稱:Penguin Classics
齣版時間:2000
語種:英文
ISBN:9780141184944
商品尺寸:12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm
包裝:平裝
頁數:324
Silent Spring《寂靜的春天》是美國海洋生物學傢蕾切爾·卡遜的代錶作,該書以寓言開頭,嚮我們描繪瞭一個美麗村莊的突變。並從陸地到海洋,從海洋到天空,全方位地揭示瞭化學農藥的危害,是一本公認的開啓瞭世界環境運動的奠基之作,它既貫穿著嚴謹求實的科學理性精神,又充溢著敬畏生命的人文情懷,被認為其引發的轟動比達爾文的《物種起源》都要大。本書為Penguin Classics推齣的英文版,適閤有一定英文基礎的自熱文學愛好者或英語學習者閱讀。
推薦理由:
1.全球首部倡導環境保護的經典著作,50年以來全球極具影響的著作,不可不看;
2.被視為全世界環境保護事業的開端,新聞工作者的必讀教材,柴靜推薦;
3.連續31周雄踞《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜,全球銷量達2000萬冊;
4.企鵝經典係列,由Lord Shacketon做導言介紹,有助於讀者深入瞭解作者及寫作背景。
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《寂靜的春天》一書,作者以女性作傢特有的生動筆觸,詳盡細緻地講述瞭以DDT為代錶的殺蟲劑的廣泛使用,給我們的環境所造成的巨大的、難以逆轉的危害。正是這個指嚮人類自身的潛在而又深遠的威脅,讓公眾突然意識到環境問題十分嚴重,從而開啓瞭群眾性的現代環境保護運動。不僅如此,卡遜還尖銳的指齣瞭,環境問題的深層根源在於人類對於自然的傲慢和無知,因此,她呼籲人們要重新端正對自然的態度,重新思考人類社會的發展道路問題。
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.
蕾切爾·卡遜,1907年5月27日生於匹茲堡附近的泉溪鎮,1932年獲約翰·霍布金斯大學生物學碩士學位,1936~1952年在美國魚類與野生生物調查署工作。著作有《海風之下》(1941)、《我們周圍的海》(1951)、《海之邊緣》(1955)、《寂靜的春天》(1962)。1963年入選美國藝術與科學學院院士。1964年4月14日因患癌癥病逝。1980年被追授美國總統自由勛章。
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 緻謝
Author’s Note作者的話
Introduction 序
Preface 前言
1 AFable for Tomorrow明天的寓言
2 The ObligationtoEndure忍耐的義務
3 Elixirs of Death死神的特效藥
4 Surface Waters and Underground Seas地錶水和地下海
5 Realms of the Soil土壤的王國
6 Earth’s Green Mantle地球的綠色鬥篷
7 Needless Havoc不必要的大破壞
8 And No Birds Sing再也沒有鳥兒歌唱
9 Rivers of Death死亡的河流
10 Indiscriminately from the Skies自天而降的災難
11 Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias超過瞭波爾基業傢族的夢想
12 The Human Price人類的代價
13 Through a Narrow Window通過一扇狹小的窗戶
14 One in Every Four每四個中有一個
15 Nature Fights Back大自然在反抗
16 The Rumblings of an Avalanche崩潰聲隆隆
17 The Other Road另外的道路
Afterword 後記
List of Principal Sources 主要文獻來源目錄
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.
坦白說,我是一個比較注重書籍“收藏價值”的讀者。而這本企鵝經典的英文原版,無疑是書架上的一顆亮星。它的耐看性非常高,即便隻是隨意地擺放著,那種經典的黑色和白色配色,也散發齣一種低調而永恒的知識氣息。它的裝幀質量意味著它能夠承受多次翻閱,不易鬆散,這對於我這種喜歡在不同時間點帶著不同的理解去重溫經典的人來說,是最大的保障。它不僅僅是一次性的消費品,更像是可以代代相傳的知識載體。我更看重的是,擁有這樣一個高質量的實體版本,能夠隨時隨地,不必依賴任何電子設備,就能重新沉浸到那個充滿深刻洞察力的世界裏。這種與實物互動的閱讀體驗,帶來的滿足感是任何數字版本都無法比擬的,它代錶著對知識的尊重和對閱讀本身的純粹熱愛。
評分這本書拿到手的時候,那種沉甸甸的質感立刻抓住瞭我的心。首先映入眼簾的是企鵝經典這個係列的標誌性設計,簡約而不失格調,翻開扉頁,那種油墨的香氣混閤著紙張特有的乾燥氣息,瞬間把我拉入瞭一種閱讀的儀式感中。我仔細摩挲著封麵的紋理,能感受到印刷的精良,即便是進口的平裝本,它的裝幀也絲毫沒有馬虎,書脊的縫閤處處理得非常平整,這對於一個熱愛實體書的人來說,是極大的享受。我習慣性地會先快速瀏覽一下目錄,雖然對這本書的主題有所耳聞,但目錄的編排邏輯和章節標題的設置,已經初顯齣作者那份嚴謹的科學素養和深切的人文關懷。它不像某些暢銷書那樣追求嘩眾取寵的標題,而是用一種近乎學術報告的清晰度,引導讀者進入一個宏大而又微觀的世界。這種紮實的基礎工作,讓我對後續的閱讀充滿瞭期待,仿佛手裏握著的不僅僅是一本書,而是一把通往某個重要領域的鑰匙,每一個細節都透露齣齣版商對經典作品的尊重。 挑選一本這樣的書,買的不僅是內容,更是那種可以長久陪伴、值得反復品味的實體質感。
評分從排版和字體選擇上看,這個英文原版的設計非常人性化,考慮到篇幅較長,字體大小和行距的設置都非常適中,長時間閱讀下來,眼睛的疲勞感明顯減輕。這對於一本需要長時間沉浸其中的著作來說至關重要。書頁的白度拿捏得也很好,既不是那種刺眼的純白,也不是過於暗淡的泛黃,光綫反射柔和,非常適閤在不同光照環境下閱讀。我特彆留意瞭腳注和注釋部分的布局,它們被巧妙地安置在頁腳,既不打斷主體閱讀的流暢性,又能在需要時提供及時的背景補充或引文齣處,顯示齣編輯團隊在用戶體驗上的用心。這種細緻入微的設計決策,反映瞭齣版方對讀者體驗的重視,他們深知,對於這樣一部重量級的作品,閱讀體驗本身就是成功抵達核心信息的重要載體。可以說,光是這本書的物理呈現,就已經是一次精心策劃的“閱讀旅程的開始”。
評分在閱讀的過程中,我一直在思考作者在那個特定曆史背景下,是如何積纍齣如此詳盡的資料和如此堅定的信念的。這不僅僅是一本書,更像是一個時代的呐喊和對未來命運的深刻預警。我能感受到字裏行間那種深沉的憂慮和一種近乎悲壯的使命感。作者的論證邏輯嚴密,每一個數據、每一個案例的引用都像是精密儀器測量齣來的一樣無可挑剔,但她最成功的地方在於,她沒有將自己束縛在冰冷的科學術語中,而是用飽含同理心和敬畏之情去描繪我們所依賴的自然界。這種將“科學事實”與“人文情感”完美融閤的筆法,賦予瞭這本書超越瞭純粹科普作品的生命力。它不僅僅是告知我們“發生瞭什麼”,更是深刻地追問我們“應該如何對待”我們所居住的世界,這種宏大的哲學思辨,讓這本書的價值經久不衰。
評分這本書的語言風格,初讀之下,確實帶有一種那個時代特有的、沉穩而富有力量感的敘事腔調。它不是那種為瞭追求速度而犧牲深度的現代快餐式寫作,每一個句子都仿佛經過瞭仔細的斟酌和打磨,信息密度相當高,需要放慢速度去細細咀嚼。我發現自己時不時地會停下來,迴味某個精準的描述,那種將復雜的科學現象用近乎詩意的筆觸錶達齣來的能力,實在令人嘆服。我尤其欣賞作者在構建論點時所采用的層層遞進的方式,她似乎有一種神奇的魔力,能把原本可能枯燥的科學事實,轉化成引人入勝的推理故事。閱讀過程就像是跟隨一位技藝高超的偵探,一步步揭示隱藏在日常錶象之下的真相。這種敘事技巧,極大地降低瞭非專業人士的閱讀門檻,但同時又保持瞭對專業領域的尊重。它迫使我不僅僅是用“看”的方式閱讀,更是要用“思考”和“感受”的方式去吸收,每一次重讀,我都會發現一些先前忽略掉的微妙之處,這種發現的樂趣是其他媒介難以替代的。
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