Rediscovering the Maine Woods: Thoreau`s Legacy in an Unsettled Land, Kucich John J.
Автор: Thoreau, Henry David Название: Maine woods ISBN: 0691118779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691118772 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3168.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1864, this volume is a telling of the journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. It presents the author`s account of the wilderness. It is a personal story of exterior and interior discoveries in a natural setting.
Автор: Garber Frederick Название: Thoreau`s Fable of Inscribing ISBN: 0691605408 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691605401 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Early in Thoreau`s career, he became obsessed with the problem of getting to be at home in the world. This ambitious book relates that obsession to his way of fostering at-homeness: "inscribing" himself not only through words but through such occupations as the making of books, houses, and tracks in the woods. Frederick Garber reveals that a comple
Автор: Gale Cengage Learning Название: A Study Guide for Henry David Thoreau`s Walden ISBN: 1379281229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781379281221 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2014.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A Study Guide for Henry David Thoreau's "Walden", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Описание: Thoreau`s Reading charts Henry Thoreau`s intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career from 1833, when he entered Harvard College, to his death in 1862. It also furnishes a catalogue of nearly fifteen hundred entries of his reading, compiled from references and allusions in his published writings, journal, correspondence, library char
Автор: Robert Kuhn McGregor Название: A Wider View of the Universe: Henry Thoreau`s Study of Nature ISBN: 1476668973 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476668970 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Traces the origins and development of Henry David Thoreau`s painstaking and profound study of the natural world. Arguing that Thoreau in his early career did not perceive nature a worthy subject for his pen, the author chronicles his growing interest and the reasons behind the shift in viewpoint.
Автор: Thorson Robert M. Название: The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau`s River Years ISBN: 0674237412 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674237414 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 4110.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Henry David Thoreau was keenly aware of the many ways in which humans had altered the waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. A land surveyor by trade, he recognized that he was as complicit in these transformations as the bankers, builders, and elected officials who were his clients. The Boatman reveals the depth of his knowledge about the river as it elegantly chronicles his move from anger to lament to acceptance of how humans had changed a place he cherished even more than Walden Pond.
"A scrupulous account of the environment Thoreau loved most... Thorson argues convincingly--sometimes beautifully--that Thoreau's thinking and writing were integrally connected to paddling and sailing." --Wall Street Journal
"An in-depth account of Thoreau's lifelong love of boats, his skill as a navigator, his intimate knowledge of the waterways around Concord, and his extensive survey of the Concord River." --Robert Pogue Harrison, New York Review of Books
"An impressive feat of empirical research...an important contribution to the scholarship on Thoreau as natural scientist." --Los Angeles Review of Books
"The Boatman presents a whole new Thoreau--the river rat. This is not just groundbreaking, but fun." --David Gessner, author of All the Wild That Remains
Автор: Chura, Patrick Название: Thoreau the land surveyor ISBN: 0813041473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813041476 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: <p>Henry David Thoreau, one of America’s most prominent environmental writers, supported himself as a land surveyor for much of his life, parcelling land that would be sold off to loggers. In the only study of its kind, Patrick Chura analyses this seeming contradiction to show how the best surveyor in Concord combined civil engineering with civil disobedience. </p> <p>Placing Thoreau's surveying in historical context, <em>Thoreau the Land Surveyor</em> explains the cultural and ideological implications of surveying work in the mid-nineteenth century. Chura explains the ways that Thoreau's environmentalist disposition and philosophical convictions asserted themselves even as he reduced the land to measurable terms and acted as an agent for bringing it under proprietary control. He also describes in detail Thoreau's 1846 survey of Walden Pond. By identifying the origins of <em>Walden</em> in--of all places--surveying data, Chura re-creates a previously lost supporting manuscript of this American classic. </p>
Автор: Thoreau Henry David Название: The Maine Woods ISBN: 088240959X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780882409597 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2619.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author's transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place "not even scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world." In Maine he comes in contact with "rocks, trees, wind and solid earth" as though he were witness to the creation itself. Of equal importance, The Maine Woods depicts Thoreau's contact with the American Indians and depicts his tribal education of learning the language, customs, and mores of the Penobscot people. Thoreau attempts to learn and speak the Abenaki language and becomes fascinated with its direct translation of natural phenomena as in the word sebamook--a river estuary that never loses is water despite having an outlet because it also has an inlet. The Maine Woods illustrates the author's deeper understanding of the complexities of the primal wilderness of uplifted rocky summits in Maine and provides the reader with the pungent aroma of balsam firs, black spruce, mosses, and ferns as only Thoreau could. This new, redesigned edition features an insightful foreword by Thoreau scholar Richard Francis Fleck.
Redesigned edition featuring an insightful foreword by Thoreau scholar Richard Francis Fleck. Fleck is a well-respected authority on Thoreau and the author of many books including Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. This book was first published in 1864 (composed partly of articles he had written earlier for periodicals) and still in print, is an insightful reporter's picture of a rugged wilderness the moment before being irrevocably altered by armies of loggers. Today the virgin forest seen by Thoreau is gone; trees have been cut, regrown, and harvested again. But modern travelers -- hikers, campers, hunters, fishers, canoeists or back road wanderers -- will still find, as Thoreau did, a land "more grim and wild than you had anticipated." It's also pin-drop tranquil, teeming with wildlife and, in places, challenging to reach. (NYTimes) Following Thoreau into the Maine Woods is hardly a new idea, but it is becoming easier. The Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail was inaugurated, delineating and celebrating Thoreau's passage on routes that Penobscot Indians had used for thousands of years. (NYTimes) Nature tourism is a $37 billion annual industry in the United States (Outdoor Industry Association).
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