Thoreau's Country Journey Through a Transformed Landscape
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/2001
Part ecological and historical puzzle, this book brings a vanished countryside to life in all its dimensions, human and natural, offering a rich record of human imprint upon the land. Extensive excerpts from the journals human and natural, offering a rich record of human imprint upon the land. Extensive excerpts from the journals how us through the vividly recorded details of daily life, a Thoreau intimately acquainted with the ways in which he and his neighbors were changing and remarking the New England landscape. Foster adds the perspective of a modern forest ecologist and landscape historian, using the journals to trace themes of historical and social change.
Thoreau's journals evoke not a wilderness retreat but the emotions and natural history that come from an old and humanized landscape. It is with a new understanding of the human role in shaping that landscape. Foster argues, thatwe can best prepare ourselves to appreciate and conserve it today.
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