Dyana Furmansky - Rosalie Edge: Hawk of Mercy

Rosalie Edge was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge’s personal papers andon interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names “Joan of Arc” and“hellcat.” Her achievements form a crucial link between the eras defined by John Muir and Rachel Carson. An early voice against the indiscriminate use of toxins andpesticides, Edge reported evidence about the dangers of DDT fourteenyears before Carson’s Silent Spring was published. Today, Edge is mostwidely remembered for establishing Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, theworld’s first refuge for birds of prey. Dyana Furmansky’s articles on nature and the environment have appeared in The New York Times, American Heritage, Audubon, High Country News, Sierra, Wilderness, and many other publications.

Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists (Hardcover)

By Dyana Z. Furmansky, Bill McKibben, Roland C. Clement

$28.95

ISBN-13: 9780820333410
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Published: A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book, 5/2009

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