Walden's Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science

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 com...

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Main Author: Thorson, Robert M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2014]
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (440 Seiten)
ISBN:9780674728400
DOI:10.4159/9780674728400

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