Author: Donald W. LinebaughPublisher: Hardscrabble Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A thorough new accounting of the work of the controversial archaeologist Roland Robbins.
The Man who Found Thoreau
Author: Donald W. LinebaughPublisher: Hardscrabble Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A thorough new accounting of the work of the controversial archaeologist Roland Robbins.
Henry David Thoreau
Author: Laura Dassow WallsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022634469X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
"[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and about to pass to the next.' By the time he died in 1862, at only forty-four years of age, Thoreau had witnessed the transformation of his world from a community of farmers and artisans into a bustling, interconnected commercial nation. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated? Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, [the author] presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him."--
The Natural Man
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835605038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This miniature presents a lively selection of Thoreau's writings, topically arranged.
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
Author: Michael SimsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408838230
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
From Mahatma Gandhi and John F. Kennedy to Martin Luther King and Leo Tolstoy, the works of Henry David Thoreau – author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, schoolteacher, engineer – have long been an inspiration to many. But who was the unsophisticated young man who in 1837 became a protégé of Ralph Waldo Emerson? The Adventures of Henry Thoreau tells the colourful story of a complex man seeking a meaningful life in a tempestuous era. In rich, evocative prose Michael Sims brings to life the insecure, youthful Henry, as he embarks on the path to becoming the literary icon Thoreau. Using the letters and diaries of Thoreau's family, friends and students, Michael Sims charts his coming of age within a family struggling to rise above poverty in 1830s America. From skating and boating with Nathaniel Hawthorne, to travels with his brother, John Thoreau, and the launching of their progressive school, Sims paints a vivid portrait of the young writer struggling to find his voice through communing with nature, whether mountain climbing in Maine or building his life-changing cabin at Walden Pond. He explores Thoreau's infatuation with the beautiful young woman who rejected his proposal of marriage, the influence of his mother and sisters – who were passionate abolitionists – and that of the powerful cultural currents of the day. With emotion and texture, The Adventures of Henry Thoreau sheds fresh light on one of the most iconic figures in American history.
Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Selected writings from the influential and inspirational essays of an early American transcendentalist, poet, and independent thinker.
The Boatman
Author: Robert M. ThorsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674977726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Henry David Thoreau was keenly aware of the many ways in which humans had altered the waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. A land surveyor by trade, he recognized that he was as complicit in these transformations as the bankers, builders, and elected officials who were his clients. The Boatman reveals the depth of his knowledge about the river as it elegantly chronicles his move from anger to lament to acceptance of how humans had changed a place he cherished even more than Walden Pond. “A scrupulous account of the environment Thoreau loved most... Thorson argues convincingly—sometimes beautifully—that Thoreau’s thinking and writing were integrally connected to paddling and sailing.” —Wall Street Journal “An in-depth account of Thoreau’s lifelong love of boats, his skill as a navigator, his intimate knowledge of the waterways around Concord, and his extensive survey of the Concord River.” —Robert Pogue Harrison, New York Review of Books “An impressive feat of empirical research...an important contribution to the scholarship on Thoreau as natural scientist.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “The Boatman presents a whole new Thoreau—the river rat. This is not just groundbreaking, but fun.” —David Gessner, author of All the Wild That Remains
Thoreau as Seen by His Contemporaries
Author: Walter HardingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Thoreau's Book of Quotations
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486159310
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
In more than 600 striking, thought-provoking excerpts, grouped under 17 headings, Thoreau rails against injustice, gives voice to his love of nature, and advocates simplicity and conscious living. Note.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord River (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Cape Cod
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Cod (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description