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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:
Release Date : 1975
Thoreau Country written by Herbert Wendell Gleason and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Literary Criticism categories.
Civil Disobedience
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Author : Henry David Thoreau
language : en
Publisher: The Floating Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Civil Disobedience written by Henry David Thoreau and has been published by The Floating Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write in response to slavery and the Mexican-American war. He believed that people could not be made agents of injustice if they were governed by their own consciences.
The Wildest Country
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Author : J. Parker Huber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Wildest Country written by J. Parker Huber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Maine categories.
Essays
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Author : Henry D. Thoreau
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-21
Essays written by Henry D. Thoreau and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-21 with Literary Collections categories.
DIV A treasure trove of Thoreau’s most noteworthy essays, with plentiful annotations by leading Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer /div
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 Essays Of Henry David Thoreau
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Author : Henry David Thoreau
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1992-03
The Essays Of Henry David Thoreau written by Henry David Thoreau and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
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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
Walden And Other Writings
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Author : Henry David Thoreau
language : en
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date : 2000-11-01
Walden And Other Writings written by Henry David Thoreau and has been published by Modern Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-01 with Fiction categories.
Henry David Thoreau's vision of personal freedom is indelibly etched on the American consciousness. 'We need the tonic of wildness,' Thoreau wrote in Walden, and by turning his back on town amenities to build a house on Walden Pond in 1845, he helped shape our notions of the individual, subsistence, and a moral relation to nature. Raising white beans and potatoes that he sold to his Concord neighbors, he stayed for two years; his book records both the philosophy he developed while living alone and the facts of his everyday life. Included here with the complete text of Walden are selections from Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; 'A Plea for Captain John Brown,' his eloquent defense of the American abolitionist's rebellion at Harper's Ferry, and such masterpieces as his famous essay 'Civil Disobedience,' in which he describes a night spent in prison for refusing to pay a poll tax to a government that condoned slavery.
Walden
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Author : Henry David Thoreau
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this authoritative text with generous annotations, a distinguished literary scholar has corrected errors and omissions from previous editions, with notes taken from Thoreau's draft manuscripts and quotes from sources Thoreau read.