Thoreau the land surveyor / Patrick Chura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chura, Patrick, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Surveyors--United States--Biography.

Surveyors.

Surveying--United States--History--19th century.

Surveying.

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Knowledge--Surveying.

Thoreau, Henry David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Henry David Thoreau, one of America's most prominent environmental writers, supported himself as a land surveyor for much of his life, parceling land that would be sold off to loggers. In the only study of its kind, Patrick Chura analyzes this seeming contradiction to show how the best surveyor in Concord combined civil engineering with civil disobedience. Placing Thoreau's surveying in historical context, Thoreau the Land Surveyor explains the cultural and ideological implications of surveying work in the mid-nineteenth century. Chura explains the ways that Thoreau's environme

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-3827-8

0-8130-4350-6

OCLC:

811563584