Sara’s pictures are rites of evocation… a radically new and exciting approach to the work of representing the past to the present

animals now occupy center stage

and their communities

With a foreword by Sheila Rowbotham

across Europe

Silent Spring Gordon Matta-Clark Sara’s pictures are rites ofRachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a preface by World Wildlife Fund founder Julian Huxley, and an afterword by Carson's biographer Linda Lear. Now recognized as one of the most influential books of