"The relationship between man and his environment is a topic that has been foremost in my own thoughts for many years," the author said. Only four novels, including her sea trilogy and Silent Spring, were published by Rachel Carson, but they were enough to ensure her long-lasting fame. This collection of Carson's lesser-known and previously unpublished writing paints a more intimate picture of her development as an environmental thinker. Along with her early work, essays, field journals, speeches, articles, and letters, this collection represents both her public and private voice. In Lost Woods, she describes her growing awareness of the natural world's fragility and our impact on it, as well as her eventually successful crusade to draw attention to the range of issues facing us. that we are now beginning to understand? the environmental emergency is thanks in no small part to Carson?s prescient call to alarm.