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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Thorson, Robert M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)
• Other title: 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 --; GLOSSARY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674728400; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674728400
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert M. Thorson.

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.