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Book SynopsisThis illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a special love for what he called "the simple beauty of New England," became interested in Thoreau's work when commissioned in 1906 by the Houghton Miffli
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*List of Illustrations, pg. vii*On the Photographs of Herbert Wendell Gleason, pg. xiii*Historical Introduction, pg. xvii*Economy, pg. 1*Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, pg. 81*Reading, pg. 99*Sounds, pg. 111*Solitude, pg. 129*Visitors, pg. 140*The Bean-Field, pg. 155*The Village, pg. 167*The Ponds, pg. 173*Baker Farm, pg. 201*Higher Laws, pg. 210*Brute Neighbors, pg. 223*House-Warming, pg. 238*Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors, pg. 256*Winter Animals, pg. 271*The Pond in Winter, pg. 282*Spring, pg. 299*Conclusion, pg. 320*Index, pg. 335
