Thoreau's Wildflowers
by Henry David Thoreau
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0300214774
- ISBN 13
- 9780300214772
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Yale University Press, 2016. Hardcover. New/New. A clean crisp well preserved 2016 Yale University Press hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The first collection of Thoreau's writings on the flowering plants of Concord, with more than 200 drawings by renowned artist Barry Moser Some of Henry David Thoreau's most beautiful nature writing was inspired by the flowering trees and plants of Concord. An inveterate year-round rambler and journal keeper, he faithfully recorded, dated, and described his sightings of the floating water lily, the elusive wild azalea, and the late autumn foliage of the scarlet oak. This inviting selection of Thoreau's best flower writings is arranged by day of the year and accompanied by Thoreau's philosophical speculations and his observations of the weather and of other plants and animals. They illuminate the author's spirituality, his belief in nature's correspondence with the human soul, and his sense that anticipation--of spring, of flowers yet to bloom--renews our connection with the earth and with immortality. Thoreau's Wildflowers features more than 200 of the black-and-white drawings originally created by Barry Moser for his first illustrated book, Flowering Plants of Massachusetts. This volume also presents "Thoreau as Botanist," an essay by Ray Angelo, the leading authority on the flowering plants of Concord.
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 957
- Title
- Thoreau's Wildflowers
- Author
- Henry David Thoreau
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300214774
- ISBN 13
- 9780300214772
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- Naturalist, Philosopher, Flowers, Wildflowers, Nature writing,
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