Thoreau Country
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Thoreau S Country
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Author : David R. Foster
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Thoreau S Country written by David R. Foster and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Social Science categories.
In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools he brought a copy of the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape around him was from the one Thoreau described more than a century earlier. The sights and sounds that Thoreau experienced on his daily walks through nineteenth-century Concord were those of rolling farmland, small woodlands, and farmers endlessly working the land. As Foster explored the New England landscape, he discovered ancient ruins of cellar holes, stone walls, and abandoned cartways--all remnants of this earlier land now largely covered by forest. How had Thoreau's open countryside, shaped by ax and plough, divided by fences and laneways, become a forested landscape? Part ecological and historical puzzle, this book brings a vanished countryside to life in all its dimensions, human and natural, offering a rich record of human imprint upon the land. Extensive excerpts from the journals show us, through the vividly recorded details of daily life, a Thoreau intimately acquainted with the ways in which he and his neighbors were changing and remaking the New England landscape. Foster adds the perspective of a modern forest ecologist and landscape historian, using the journals to trace themes of historical and social change. Thoreau's journals evoke not a wilderness retreat but the emotions and natural history that come from an old and humanized landscape. It is with a new understanding of the human role in shaping that landscape, Foster argues, that we can best prepare ourselves to appreciate and conserve it today. From the journal: "I have collected and split up now quite a pile of driftwood--rails and riders and stems and stumps of trees--perhaps half or three quarters of a tree...Each stick I deal with has a history, and I read it as I am handling it, and, last of all, I remember my adventures in getting it, while it is burning in the winter evening. That is the most interesting part of its history. It has made part of a fence or a bridge, perchance, or has been rooted out of a clearing and bears the marks of fire on it...Thus one half of the value of my wood is enjoyed before it is housed, and the other half is equal to the whole value of an equal quantity of the wood which I buy." --October 20, 1855
Thoreau Country
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Author : Herbert Wendell Gleason
language : en
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Release Date : 1975
Thoreau Country written by Herbert Wendell Gleason and has been published by Random House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with American prose literature categories.
Thoreau S New England
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2007
Thoreau S New England written by and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Landscape categories.
"Steve Gorman is a true American visionary. His masterful images are beautifuland sometimes disturbing, but they offer tantalizing clues into the nature of our national character and our capricious relationship to the natural world. His work deftly inscribes our beliefs, our dreams, and our American story in an accessible and eye-opening way."--Dan Brown, author of "The DaVinci Code"University Press of New England
The Wildest Country
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Author : J. Parker Huber
language : en
Publisher: Appalachian Mountain Club
Release Date : 2008
The Wildest Country written by J. Parker Huber and has been published by Appalachian Mountain Club this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
Back in print by popular demand, this revised edition follows the famed naturalist Henry David Thoreau's sojourns in Maine and provides today's travelers with modern-day excursions.
Picturing Thoreau
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Author : Mark W. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-01-14
Picturing Thoreau written by Mark W. Sullivan and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-14 with Art categories.
This book examines, in detail, about 30 portraits of Henry David Thoreau that were done by American artists between 1854 and the present day. It becomes clear from this study that although Thoreau’s features have been “used” in a bewildering variety of ways to convey a host of messages (some of which would have dismayed him), there is a remarkable consistency, and relevance for us today, in what he was trying to convey to his fellow Americans.
Life Of Henry David Thoreau
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Author : Henry S. Salt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Life Of Henry David Thoreau written by Henry S. Salt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Authors, American categories.
Walden Pond
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Author : William Barksdale Maynard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2005
Walden Pond written by William Barksdale Maynard and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
A chronological narrative of Walden history explains the reasons for Thoreau's decision to build a home in the woods and recounts physical alterations made to Walden in the name of public access and safety.
The Life Of Henry David Thoreau
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Author : Henry S. Salt
language : en
Publisher: Ardent Media
Release Date : 1890
The Life Of Henry David Thoreau written by Henry S. Salt and has been published by Ardent Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Authors, American categories.
The Thoreau Society Bulletin
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Author : Thoreau Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Thoreau Society Bulletin written by Thoreau Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
Civilizing Thoreau
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Author : Richard J. Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2016
Civilizing Thoreau written by Richard J. Schneider and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Collections categories.
7: Nature and the Origins of American Civilization in Cape Cod -- Part IV. America's Destiny and Ecological Succession -- 8: Thoreau and Manifest Destiny -- Works Cited -- Index