Thoreau on Birds
Title | Thoreau on Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | Beacon Press (MA) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Animal behavior |
ISBN | 9780807085219 |
"Thoreau's descriptions, and his insights into elemental force, are hypnotic. This beautifully designed book is easy to pick up, hard to put down".--David Schneider, "Whole Earth Review". 20 illustrations.
Bird Relics
Title | Bird Relics PDF eBook |
Author | Branka Arsic |
Publisher | |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2016-01-04 |
Genre | Grief |
ISBN | 9780674088474 |
Branka Arsi shows that Thoreau developed a theory of vitalism in response to his brother s death. Through grieving, he came to see life as a generative force into which everything dissolves and reemerges. This reinterpretation, based on sources overlooked by critics, explains many of Thoreau s more idiosyncratic habits and obsessions."
Thoreau's Notes on Birds of New England
Title | Thoreau's Notes on Birds of New England PDF eBook |
Author | Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2019-04-17 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0486833844 |
During his two-year residence at Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau became keenly aware of the natural world that surrounded him. Entries from his journals reflect his soulful, in-depth observations of local wildlife, and his remarks on birds are particularly plentiful and poetic. This book, originally published as Notes on New England Birds in 1910 and edited and arranged by Francis H. Allen, collects Thoreau's thoughts on the various bird species that populated the New England woods, from the great blue heron to the kingbird and the American finch. "Open to any page and you will find, besides apt descriptions of the natural world, a cogent remark or a philosophical observation," noted The Washington Post. Bird lovers and watchers, fans of Thoreau, and naturalists and environmentalists will delight in joining the author as he saunters through the woods and ponders the region's abundant wildlife. A new selection of 16 full-page color illustrations by John James Audubon enhances the text.
Thoreau's Animals
Title | Thoreau's Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0300223765 |
"From Thoreau's renowned Journal, a treasury of memorable, funny, and sharply observed accounts of the wild and domestic animals of Concord."--Front flap.
Notes on New England Birds
Title | Notes on New England Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | Sagwan Press |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 2018-02-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781376786453 |
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Being Henry David
Title | Being Henry David PDF eBook |
Author | Cal Armistead |
Publisher | Albert Whitman & Company |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0807506176 |
STARRED REVIEW! "This compelling, suspenseful debut, a tough-love riff on guilt, forgiveness and redemption, asks hard questions to which there are no easy answers."—Kirkus Reviews starred review Best Teen Books of 2013, Kirkus Reviews 2014 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People The Best Children's Books of the Year 2014, Bank Street College Seventeen-year-old "Hank," who can't remember his identity, finds himself in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's Walden as his only possession and must figure out where he's from and why he ran away. Seventeen-year-old "Hank" has found himself at Penn Station in New York City with no memory of anything—who he is, where he came from, why he's running away. His only possession is a worn copy of Walden by Henry David Thoreau. And so he becomes Henry David—or "Hank"—and takes first to the streets, and then to the only destination he can think of—Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Cal Armistead's remarkable debut novel about a teen in search of himself. As Hank begins to piece together recollections from his past he realizes that the only way he can discover his present is to face up to the realities of his grievous memories. He must come to terms with the tragedy of his past to stop running and find his way home.
Thoreau and the Language of Trees
Title | Thoreau and the Language of Trees PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Higgins |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2017-04-04 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0520967313 |
Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow in the air, he was speaking about himself. In short, he spoke their language. In this original book, Richard Higgins explores Thoreau’s deep connections to trees: his keen perception of them, the joy they gave him, the poetry he saw in them, his philosophical view of them, and how they fed his soul. His lively essays show that trees were a thread connecting all parts of Thoreau’s being—heart, mind, and spirit. Included are one hundred excerpts from Thoreau’s writings about trees, paired with over sixty of the author’s photographs. Thoreau’s words are as vivid now as they were in 1890, when an English naturalist wrote that he was unusually able to “to preserve the flashing forest colors in unfading light.” Thoreau and the Language of Trees shows that Thoreau, with uncanny foresight, believed trees were essential to the preservation of the world.