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This 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

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9780691618227, 978-0691618227
      ISBN10: 0691618224

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This 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

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