Always, Rachel

These letters between the pioneering environmentalist and her beloved friend reveal “a vibrant, caring woman behind the scientist” ( Los Angeles Times ). “Rachel Carson, author of The Silent Spring , has been celebrated as the pioneer of the modern environmental movement. Although she wrote no autobiography, she did leave letters, and those she exchanged—sometimes daily—with Dorothy Freeman, some 750 of which are collected here, are perhaps more satisfying than an account of her own life. In 195