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. Placing Thoreau's
surveying in historical context, Thoreau the Land Surveyor 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 Walden in--of all places--surveying
data, Chura re-creates a previously lost supporting manuscript of
this American classic.
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