Thoreau's Country: Journey Through a Transformed Landscape

by Henry David Thoreau and David R. Foster

Book Overview

In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools he brought a copy of the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape around him was from the one Thoreau described more than a century earlier. The sights and sounds that Thoreau experienced on his daily walks through 19th-century Concord were those of rolling farmland, small woodlands, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674886453
• ISBN13: 9780674886452
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"