PHOTOGRAPHS:

Artville: p16 (dragonfly, © Artville).

Corbis Images: p16 (R. Carson with microscope, © Corbis Images), p21 (JFK in rowboat, © Corbis Images).

Double Click studios: interior and exterior book photographs.

Getty Images: p21 (scientists, © Stone).

Magnum Photos: front cover, p6, p17, p18, © Magnum Photos.

PhotoDisc: p12 (starfish, © PhotoDisc), p15 (feather, © PhotoDisc).

Pictor: p23 (students planting trees, © Pictor).

Rachel Carson History Project: p1, p7, p8, p11, p12, p16 (R. Carson inspecting marshland), © Rachel Carson History Project.

Text adapted from Rachel Carson, copyright © 1993 by William Accorsi. Adapted by permission of William Accorsi, author and illustrator of the original edition.

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