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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.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1866 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1886 Edition.
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Cape Cod (Paperback)
Tao Editorial; Henry D. Thoreau
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R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
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Cape Cod (Hardcover)
Henry D. Thoreau; Illustrated by Clifton Johnson
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R1,231
Discovery Miles 12 310
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
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