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Walden’s Shore : Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science / Robert M. Thorson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries onlyDescription: 1 online resource (440 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674088184
  • 9780674728400
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818/.303 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3048 .T55 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I THE PLACE OF THE BOOK -- 1 ROCK REALITY -- 2 LANDSCAPE OF LOSS -- 3 THOREAU’S ARCTIC VISION -- 4 AFTER THE DELUGE -- 5 MELTDOWN TO BEAUTY -- INTERLUDE -- 6 THE WALDEN SYSTEM -- II THE BOOK OF THE PLACE -- 7 SENSING WALDEN -- 8 WRITING WALDEN -- 9 INTERPRETING WALDEN -- 10 MYTHOLOGY -- 11 SIMPLICITY -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- REFERENCES -- REFERENCES -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX
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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I THE PLACE OF THE BOOK -- 1 ROCK REALITY -- 2 LANDSCAPE OF LOSS -- 3 THOREAU’S ARCTIC VISION -- 4 AFTER THE DELUGE -- 5 MELTDOWN TO BEAUTY -- INTERLUDE -- 6 THE WALDEN SYSTEM -- II THE BOOK OF THE PLACE -- 7 SENSING WALDEN -- 8 WRITING WALDEN -- 9 INTERPRETING WALDEN -- 10 MYTHOLOGY -- 11 SIMPLICITY -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- REFERENCES -- REFERENCES -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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