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Walden's shore : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century science / Robert M. Thorson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thorson, Robert M., 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Walden.
- Thoreau, Henry David.
- Literature and science--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and science.
- Nature in literature.
- Walden Woods (Mass.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 p.)
- Edition:
- Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 ROCK REALITY
- 2 LANDSCAPE OF LOSS
- 3 THOREAU’S ARCTIC VISION
- 4 AFTER THE DELUGE
- 5 MELTDOWN TO BEAUTY
- 6 THE WALDEN SYSTEM
- 7 SENSING WALDEN
- 8 WRITING WALDEN
- 9 INTERPRETING WALDEN
- 10 MYTHOLOGY
- 11 SIMPLICITY
- CONCLUSION
- ABBREVIATIONS
- REFERENCES
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780674728417
- 0674728416
- 9780674728400
- 0674728408
- OCLC:
- 867049968
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