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Author Walls, Laura Dassow, author.

Title Henry David Thoreau : a life / Laura Dassow Walls.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
©2017

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Location Call No. Public Note Status
 Davis Adult Nonfiction  B THOREAU    CHECK SHELVES
Description xx, 615 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Content type text txt rdacontent
Format volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: land of the grass-ground river -- The making of Thoreau. Concord sons and daughters ; Higher learning from Concord to Harvard (1826-1837) ; Transcendental apprentice (1837-1841) ; "Not till we are lost" (1842-1844) -- The making of Walden. "Walden, is it you?" (1845-1847) ; A writer's life (1847-1849) ; From Concord to Cosmos: Thoreau's turn to science (1849-1851) ; The beauty of nature, the baseness of men (1852-1854) -- Successions. Walden-on-Main (1854-1857) ; Wild fruits (1857-1859) ; A constant new creation (1860-1862).
Subject Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Naturalists -- United States -- Biography.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9780226344690
022634469X