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Thoreau the land surveyor / Patrick Chura.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chura, Patrick, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Knowledge and learning--Surveying.
- Thoreau, Henry David.
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
- Surveying.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- History.
- Surveyors.
- United States.
- Surveyors--United States--Biography.
- Surveying--United States--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 212 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2010]
- Contents:
- The surveyor and the state
- Material to mythology
- Walden, Cape Cod, and the duty of the coast survey
- The skillful engineer
- Serving Admetus
- The science of the field notes
- The Concord surveyor and the Kansas surveyor
- "I am a surveyor".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813034935
- 0813034930
- OCLC:
- 544474623
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