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This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David
Thoreau makes available important material written both before and
after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the
essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's
environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood became increasingly
urbanized and industrialized. William Rossi's introduction puts the
essays in the context of Thoreau's other major works, both
chronologically and intellectually. Rossi also shows how these
writings relate to Thoreau's life and career as both writer and
naturalist: his readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Darwin;
his failed bid for commercial acceptance of his work; and his
pivotal encounter with the utter wildness of the Maine woods. In
the essays themselves, readers will see how Thoreau melded
conventions of natural history writing with elements of two popular
literary forms - travel writing and landscape writing -to explore
concerns ranging from America's westward expansion to the figural
dimensions of scientific facts and phenomena. Thoreau the thinker,
observer, wanderer, and inquiring naturalist - all emerge in this
distinctive composite picture of the economic, natural, and
spiritual communities that left their marks on one of our most
important early environmentalists.
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Cape Cod (Paperback)
Tao Editorial; Henry D. Thoreau
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R366
Discovery Miles 3 660
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1886 Edition.
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Cape Cod (Hardcover)
Henry D. Thoreau; Illustrated by Clifton Johnson
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R1,329
Discovery Miles 13 290
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1866 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.
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