In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World

By Eliot Porter and Henry David Thoreau

Book Overview

A presentation of one of America's leading photographers and artistic pioneers, this is Eliot Porter's pictorial interpretation of the works of Henry Thoreau. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 0345024915
• ISBN13: 9780345024916
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Sierra Club - Ballantine
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This book changed my life.

I first saw this book in the late 60s, I was young, it expanded my universe. Together with all of John Muir's work, others of Thoreau, Ansel Adams and a book named On The Loose, the effect was complete. In our cynical times what these artists have to say is even more important. A beautiful work. The title says it all In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World I have no doubt that is true.

A Book for the Soul

The photography in this book is spectacular! It is what you expect from a Sierra Club book. Put together with wonderfully thoughtful and though-provoking texts by various writers, this book can give even a hard-core city slicker pause. Wilderness at its best....words to salve the heart.