- Publisher: Yale UP
- Year: 2016
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 344pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 233x153mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.7kg
- ISBN: 9780300214772
- Product code: 513402
Thoreau's Wildflowers
New Hardback Illustrated
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A tireless rambler and observer of nature, Henry David Thoreau kept a daily record of the plants he observed on his walks around Concord, Massachusetts, along with notes on the weather and his own philosophical speculations. This chronological selection is illustrated with line drawings by Barry Moser, and includes an introduction, notes, a map and a key to place names.
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The first collection of Thoreau's writings on the flowering plants of Concord, with more than 200 drawings by renowned artist Barry Moser
Some of Henry David Thoreau's most beautiful nature writing was inspired by the flowering trees and plants of Concord. An inveterate year-round rambler and journal keeper, he faithfully recorded, dated, and described his sightings of the floating water lily, the elusive wild azalea, and the late autumn foliage of the scarlet oak.
This inviting selection of Thoreau's best flower writings is arranged by day of the year and accompanied by Thoreau's philosophical speculations and his observations of the weather and of other plants and animals. They illuminate the author's spirituality, his belief in nature's correspondence with the human soul, and his sense that anticipation-of spring, of flowers yet to bloom-renews our connection with the earth and with immortality.
Thoreau's Wildflowers features more than 200 of the black-and-white drawings originally created by Barry Moser for his first illustrated book, Flowering Plants of Massachusetts. This volume also presents "Thoreau as Botanist," an essay by Ray Angelo, the leading authority on the flowering plants of Concord.
Some of Henry David Thoreau's most beautiful nature writing was inspired by the flowering trees and plants of Concord. An inveterate year-round rambler and journal keeper, he faithfully recorded, dated, and described his sightings of the floating water lily, the elusive wild azalea, and the late autumn foliage of the scarlet oak.
This inviting selection of Thoreau's best flower writings is arranged by day of the year and accompanied by Thoreau's philosophical speculations and his observations of the weather and of other plants and animals. They illuminate the author's spirituality, his belief in nature's correspondence with the human soul, and his sense that anticipation-of spring, of flowers yet to bloom-renews our connection with the earth and with immortality.
Thoreau's Wildflowers features more than 200 of the black-and-white drawings originally created by Barry Moser for his first illustrated book, Flowering Plants of Massachusetts. This volume also presents "Thoreau as Botanist," an essay by Ray Angelo, the leading authority on the flowering plants of Concord.
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A tireless rambler and observer of nature, Henry David Thoreau kept a daily record of the plants he observed on his walks around Concord, Massachusetts, along with notes on the weather and his own philosophical speculations. This chronological selection is illustrated with line drawings by Barry Moser, and includes an introduction, notes, a map and a key to place names.
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233x153mm
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