Carson's
'Rugged Shore'
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WHEN Rachel Carson built a summer cottage on the Maine coast in 1953, she had not yet written “Silent Spring,” the work that arguably inspired the modern environmental movement. It was thanks to an earlier best seller, “The Sea Around Us,” that she was able to leave her government job and fulfill a longstanding dream.