The Boatman / Henry David Thoreau's River Years - Thorson, Robert M.
Henry David Thoreau's river years
KORTE INHOUD
The Boatman gives readers a Thoreau for the Anthropocene epoch. As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Thoreau was keenly aware of the way humans had altered the waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. And he recognized that he himself--a land surveyor by trade--was as complicit in these transformations as the bankers, lawyers, builders, landowners, and elected officials who were his clients. Robert Thorson tells a compelling story of intellectual growth, as Thoreau moved from anger, to lament, to acceptance of the way humans had changed the river he cherished more than Walden Pond. In his twenties, Thoreau had contemplated industrial sabotage against a downstream factory dam. By the mid-1850s he realized that humans and an "imperfect" nature were inseparable. His beliefs and scientific understanding of the river would be challenged again when he was hired in 1859 as a technical consultant for the River Meadow Association, in America's first statewide case for dam removal--a veritab...
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2017Uitgever: Harvard Univ Pr315 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0674545095ISBN-13: 9780674545090Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2017, hardcover met stofomslag, goed exemplaar [Auteur: Thorson, Robert M.] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Harvard Univ Pr] [Jaar: 2017] [Titel: The Boatman / Henry David Thoreau's River Years]
