The boatman: Henry David Thoreau's river years
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 c...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 veritable class-action suit of more than five hundred petitioners that pitted local farmers against industrialists. Thorson offers the most complete account to date of this "flowage controversy," including Thoreau's behind-the-scenes investigations and the political corruption that eventually carried the day. In the years after the publication of Walden (1854), the river boatman's joy in the natural world was undiminished by the prospect of environmental change. Increasingly, he sought out for solace and pleasure those river sites most dramatically altered by human invention and intervention...for better and worse.... |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 215 pages Illustrationen, Karten |
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/ THORSON, ROBERT M.YYD1951-YYEAUTHOR
: 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
MOCCASIN PRINT
COLONIAL VILLAGE
AMERICAN CANAL
TRANSITION
PORT CONCORD
WILD WATERS
RIVER SOJOURNS
CONSULTANT
MAPMAKER
GENIUS
SAVING THE MEADOWS
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
Contents
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
List of Figures ix
Preface xi
Introduction i
Moccasin Print 34
Colonial Village 50
American Canal 64
Transition 83
Port Concord 97
Wild Waters 113
River Sojourns 128
Consultant 146
Mapmaker 164
Genius 185
Saving the Meadows
Reversal of Fortune
Conclusion 231
201
217
Epilogue 247
Abbreviations 251
Notes 253
viii I Contents
References 295
Acknowledgments 307
Index 309
m gives readers a Thoreau for the
Anthropocene epoch. As a backyard naturalist
and river enthusiast, Thoreau was keenly aware
of fiow humans had altered the waterways and
meadows of his beloved Concord River Valleys
And he recognized that he himself—a land surveyor
by trade--was as complicit in these transformations
as the hankers, lawyers, builders, landowners,
and elected officials who were his clients. Robert
Thors on 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-185os he realized that humans
and an “imperfect” nature were inseparable. His
beliefs and scientific understanding of the river
would he 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 veritable class-action suit of more
than five hundred petitioners that pitted local
farmers against industrialists. Thorson offers the
most complete account to date of this 6Cflowage
controversy,” including Thoreau’s behind-the-
scenes investigations and the political corruption
that eventually carried the day.
In the years after the publication of Wctld^rt
(1834), the river boatman’s joy in the natural world
was undiminished by the prospect of environmental
change. Increasingly, he sought out for solace and
pleasure those river sites most dramatically altered
by human invention and intervention----for better
and worse.
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