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The Carson Factor
by William Ashworth
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0801531128
- ISBN 13
- 9780801531125
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Hawthorne Books, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed on the front free endpaper in blue ink. Uncommon signed. A book that explores the unexpected repercussions of a coyote extermination campaign in Klamath County, Oregon, in 1947--a massive rodent explosion. Ashworth calls it "the Carson Factor" or, as the jacket summarizes it, "Rachel Carson's plea, in *Silent Spring,* for universal 'awareness that we are dealing with life.'" A great example of Carson's influence and another writer in sustained conversation with her (indeed, even the form of the book alludes to her, e.g. the opening line "It might be best to begin with a bit of a fable"). Ashworth has written thirteen books on the environment. Near fine with bumping to lower front corner and a series of small numbers written at bottom of FFEP (likely a bookseller's ill-advised notation); in a very good jacket with some sunning to spine and some small loss to spine crown. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1694404948939
- Title
- The Carson Factor
- Author
- William Ashworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0801531128
- ISBN 13
- 9780801531125
- Publisher
- Hawthorne Books
- Date Published
- 1979
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About the Seller
Rural Hours
Biblio member since 2023
La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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