Thoreau's Country

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037154
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Thoreau's Country by : David R. Foster

Download or read book Thoreau's Country written by David R. Foster and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The Wildest Country

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis The Wildest Country by : J. Parker Huber

Download or read book The Wildest Country written by J. Parker Huber and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thoreau Country

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Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Thoreau Country written by Herbert Wendell Gleason and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1975 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civil Disobedience

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Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775412466
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)

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Book Synopsis Civil Disobedience by : Henry David Thoreau

Download or read book Civil Disobedience written by Henry David Thoreau and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Thoreau's New England

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 158465581X
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Thoreau's New England written by and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

Picturing Thoreau

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739189077
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Picturing Thoreau by : Mark W. Sullivan

Download or read book Picturing Thoreau written by Mark W. Sullivan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book Life of Henry David Thoreau written by Henry S. Salt and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cape Cod

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Cape Cod by : Henry David Thoreau

Download or read book Cape Cod written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
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Book Synopsis A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by : Henry David Thoreau

Download or read book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

For Love of Lakes

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Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1609173317
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis For Love of Lakes by : Darby Nelson

Download or read book For Love of Lakes written by Darby Nelson and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has more than 130,000 lakes of significant size. Ninety percent of all Americans live within fifty miles of a lake, and our 1.8 billion trips to watery places make them our top vacation choice. Yet despite this striking popularity, more than 45 percent of surveyed lakes and 80 percent of urban lakes do not meet water quality standards. For Love of Lakes weaves a delightful tapestry of history, science, emotion, and poetry for all who love lakes or enjoy nature writing. For Love of Lakes is an affectionate account documenting our species’ long relationship with lakes—their glacial origins, Thoreau and his environmental message, and the major perceptual shifts and advances in our understanding of lake ecology. This is a necessary and thoughtful book that addresses the stewardship void while providing improved understanding of our most treasured natural feature.

The Life of Henry David Thoreau

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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Life of Henry David Thoreau by : Henry S. Salt

Download or read book The Life of Henry David Thoreau written by Henry S. Salt and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1890 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cattle Country

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496227018
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis Cattle Country by : Kathryn Cornell Dolan

Download or read book Cattle Country written by Kathryn Cornell Dolan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As beef and cattle production progressed in nineteenth-century America, the cow emerged as the nation’s representative food animal and earned a culturally prominent role in the literature of the day. In Cattle Country Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society’s broader struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization. Dolan examines diverse texts from Native American, African American, Mexican American, and white authors that showcase the zeitgeist of anxiety surrounding U.S. identity as cattle gradually became an industrialized food source, altering the country’s culture while exacting a high cost to humans, animals, and the land. From Henry David Thoreau’s descriptions of indigenous cuisines as a challenge to the rising monoculture, to Washington Irving’s travel narratives that foreshadow cattle replacing American bison in the West, to María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s use of cattle to connect race and imperialism in her work, authors’ preoccupations with cattle underscored their concern for resource depletion, habitat destruction, and the wasteful overproduction of a single breed of livestock. Cattle Country offers a window into the ways authors worked to negotiate the consequences of the development of this food culture and, by excavating the history of U.S. settler colonialism through the figure of cattle, sheds new ecocritical light on nineteenth-century literature.

Civilizing Thoreau

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139605
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Civilizing Thoreau by : Richard J. Schneider

Download or read book Civilizing Thoreau written by Richard J. Schneider and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Thoreau on Land

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395953853
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (538 download)

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Book Synopsis Thoreau on Land by : Henry David Thoreau

Download or read book Thoreau on Land written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spirit of Thoreau series is a fresh new collection of Thoreau's best writing and thinking on various themes, drawn from both unpublished and published sources. THOREAU ON LAND NATURE'S CANVAS Edited by Joseph Valentine This elegant volume chronicles Thoreau's fascination with nature, from his well-known reflections on Walden to an unexpected meeting with loggers in the woods: "No doubt our employment is more alike than we suspect, and we are each serving the great Master's needs more than our own." He shows a Thoreau much broader in his interests and sympathies than most of us imagine.

Life and Writings of Henry David Thoreau

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Life and Writings of Henry David Thoreau written by Henry Stephens Salt and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walking With Thoreau

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Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807085554
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (855 download)

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Book Synopsis Walking With Thoreau by : William Howarth

Download or read book Walking With Thoreau written by William Howarth and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2001-05-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Literary Guide to the Mountains of New England Commentary by William Howarth Walking with Thoreau features Henry David Thoreau's writings on nine New England mountains. William Howarth's illuminating commentary, printed alongside Thoreau's text, allows the presentday hiker to retrace Thoreau's footsteps up some of New England's most popular mountain destinations.

Thoreau at 200

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107094291
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Thoreau at 200 by : K. P. Van Anglen

Download or read book Thoreau at 200 written by K. P. Van Anglen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers essays on central themes of Thoreau's life, work and critical reception, by both well-known and emerging scholars.