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Walden Pond - A History (Paperback, New edition)
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Walden Pond - A History (Paperback, New edition)
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Perhaps no other natural setting has as much literary, spiritual,
and environmental significance for Americans as Walden Pond. Some
700,000 people visit the pond annually, and countless others
journey to Walden in their mind, to contemplate the man who lived
there and what the place means to us today.
Here is the first history of the Massachusetts pond Thoreau made
famous 150 years ago. W. Barksdale Maynard offers a lively and
comprehensive account of Walden Pond from the early nineteenth
century to the present. From Thoreau's first visit at age 4 in
1821--"That woodland vision for a long time made the drapery of my
dreams"--to today's efforts both to conserve the pond and allow
public access, Maynard captures Walden Pond's history and the role
it has played in social, cultural, literary, and environmental
movements in America. Along the way Maynard details the geography
of the pond; Thoreau's and Emerson's experiences of Walden over
their lifetimes; the development of the cult of Thoreau and the
growth of the pond as a site of literary and spiritual pilgrimages;
rock star Don Henley's Walden Woods Project and the much publicized
battle to protect the pond from developers in the 1980s; and the
vitally important ecological symbol Walden Pond has become today.
Exhaustively researched, vividly written, and illustrated with
historical photographs and the most detailed maps of Thoreau
country yet created, Walden Pond: A History reveals how an ordinary
pond has come to be such an extraordinarily inspiring symbol.
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