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Wild fruits : Thoreau's rediscovered last manuscript
- Title
- Wild fruits : Thoreau's rediscovered last manuscript / Henry David Thoreau ; edited and introduced by Bradley P. Dean ; illustrations by Abigail Rorer.
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2000], ©2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Additional Authors
- Dean, Bradley P.
- Description
- xvii, 409 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The final harvest of a great writer's last years, Wild Fruits presents Thoreau's sacramental vision of nature - a vision compelling in part because it grew out of an approach to the natural world at once scientific and mystical.
- The difficulties of Thoreau's handwriting, method of composition, notations, and pagination have kept his final observations and meditations from publication until now; thanks to the assiduous efforts of Thoreau specialist Bradley Dean, this great work can finally be brought to light."--BOOK JACKET.
- "This work may be considered Thoreau's last will and testament, in which he protests our desecration of the landscape, reflects on the importance of preserving wild spaces "for instruction and recreation," and envisions a new American scripture."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Note
- Map on lining papers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-385) and index.
- Contents
- Wild Fruits -- A Thoreau Chronology -- Glossary of Botanical Terms.
- ISBN
- 0393047512
- LCCN
- 99031377
- OCLC
- ocm41404600
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries