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  • The Guide to Walden Pond

    An Exploration of the History, Nature, Landscape, and Literature of One of America's Most Iconic Places

    de Robert M. Thorson ...
    An exploration of the history, nature, landscape, and literature of one of America's most iconic placesThis is the first guidebook to Henry David Thoreau's most defining place, visited by half a million people each year and widely known as the fountainhead of America's environmental consciousness.Using this guide, both armchair readers and trail-walkers alike can amble around the pond's shoreline, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Boatman

    de Robert M. Thorson ...
    Robert Thorson gives readers a Thoreau for the Anthropocene. The boatman and backyard naturalist was keenly aware of the way humans had altered the waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. Yet he sought out for solace and pleasure those river sites most dramatically altered by human invention and intervention—for better and worse. ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Walden’s Shore

    Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science

    de Robert M. Thorson ...
    "Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward," Thoreau invites his readers in Walden, "till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality." Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of that hard reality, not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert M. Thorson is interested in Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Boatman

    Henry David Thoreau’s River Years

    de Robert M. Thorson ...
    As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Henry David Thoreau was keenly aware of the many ways in which humans had altered the waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. A land surveyor by trade, he recognized that he was as complicit in these transformations as the bankers, builders, and elected officials who were his clients. The Boatman reveals the depth of his knowledge ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Stone by Stone

    The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls

    de Robert M. Thorson ...
    Narrado por Robert M. Thorson ...

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    6 hora 28 minutos

    There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story.Stone walls tell nothing less than the story of how New England was formed, and in Robert Thorson's hands they live and breathe. Millions of years ago, New England's stones ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • Mannahatta

    A Natural History of New York City

    de Eric W. Sanderson ...
    What did New York look like four centuries ago? An extraordinary reconstruction of a wild island from the forests of Times Square to the wetlands downtown.Named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal , New York Magazine , and San Francisco ChronicleOn September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set foot on the land that would become Manhattan. Today, it's difficult to imagine what he saw, but for ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Walden Warming

    Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods

    de Richard B. Primack ...
    "An unnervingly close-to-home perspective [on] the dynamics and impact of climate change on plants, birds, and myriad other species, including us."— BooklistIn his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Looking for Longleaf

    The Fall and Rise of an American Forest

    de Lawrence S. Earley ...
    Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America. Today these magnificent forests have declined to a fraction of their original extent, threatening such species as the gopher tortoise, the red-cockaded woodpecker, and the Venus fly-trap. Conservationists have proclaimed ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • In the Footsteps of Audubon

    de Denis Clavreul ...
    Traducido por Martha Le Cars ...
    An artist’s uniquely personal journey across AmericaIn the nineteenth century, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon set out to create a complete pictorial record of North American birdlife, traveling from Louisiana and the Florida Keys to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the cliffs of the Yellowstone River. The resulting work, The Birds of America, stands as a monumental achievement in ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • Walden Pond

    A History

    de W. Barksdale Maynard ...
    Perhaps no other natural setting has as much literary, spiritual, and environmental significance for Americans as Walden Pond. Some 700,000 people visit the pond annually, and countless others journey to Walden in their mind, to contemplate the man who lived there and what the place means to us today. Here is the first history of the Massachusetts pond Thoreau made famous 150 years ago. W. ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Arrowheads and Spear Points in the Prehistoric Southeast

    A Guide to Understanding Cultural Artifacts

    de Linda Crawford Culberson ...
    The Native American tribes of what is now the Southeastern United States left intriguing relics of their ancient cultural life. Arrowheads, spearpoints, stone tools, and other artifacts are found in newly plowed fields, on hillsides after a fresh rain, or in washed-out creekbeds. These are tangible clues to the anthropology of the Paleo-Indians, and the highly developed Mississippian peoples.This ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Palmetto and Its South Carolina Home

    de Jim Harrison ...
    A celebration of paintings and images exploring the beauty and strength of South Carolina's state treeWith its fanlike evergreen fronds, soft trunk, and strong root system, the palmetto is a wind-adapted palm that can bend with strong sea breezes without breaking or being uprooted. Emblematic of survival against opposition, the palmetto tree has captured the imaginations of South Carolinians for ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus