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Thoreau's Wildflowers by Henry David. Thoreau (2016, Hardcover)

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9780300214772

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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300214774
ISBN-13
9780300214772
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217047552

Product Key Features

Book Title
Thoreau's Wildflowers
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Plants / Flowers, Life Sciences / Botany, Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness, Seasons
Illustrator
Yes, Moser, Barry
Genre
Nature, Science
Author
Henry David. Thoreau
Format
Hardcover

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0.1 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.6 in

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LCCN
2015-953455
Reviews
" Thoreau's Wildflowers collects some of Thoreau's best botanical observations, pairing his prose with black and white drawings by illustrator Barry Moser. The text is drawn from Thoreau's two-million-word journal, a work so massive that few have made their way through it. Most readers of Thoreau's Wildflowers will be meeting these musings on plants for the first time."--Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal "The botanical diary is richly illustrated with Barry Moser's beautiful, very accurate black-and-white drawings. . . . This book will appeal to nature enthusiasts, fans of Thoreau, and those interested in botanical illustration."-- Choice "One of the most remarkable animal-books of the season. . . . Geoff Wisner follows up his 2016 book Thoreau's Wildflowers with an even more enchanting volume from Yale University Press. . . . Readers of Thoreau's Animals [will be] drawn in by Thoreau's masterfully insightful observations and helped considerably by the lovely drawings throughout done by Debby Cotter Kaspari."--Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor "Thoreau's excursions through the woods of Concord were made with a 'true sauntering of the eye.' Geoff Wisner's Thoreau's Wildflowers is a sauntering through the landscape of Thoreau's journals leading the reader to new discoveries of otherwise overlooked fruit."--Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition "This beautifully illustrated book brings Thoreau's voice to life, yielding a fascinating glimpse into the rich botanical world that thrived in New England 150 years ago and that still graces the landscape today."--Elizabeth Farnsworth, New England Wildflower Society "Wisner's seasonal compilation of Thoreau's prolific wildflower observations coupled with Ray Angelo's heralded profile of Thoreau as Botanist provide a delightful read and invaluable resource."--Cherrie Corey, Concord naturalist and photographer, "Wisner's seasonal compilation of Thoreau's prolific wildflower observations coupled with Ray Angelo's heralded profile of Thoreau as Botanist provide a delightful read and invaluable resource."--Cherrie Corey, Concord naturalist and photographer, "Thoreau's excursions through the woods of Concord were made with a 'true sauntering of the eye.' Geoff Wisner's Thoreau's Wildflowers is a sauntering through the landscape of Thoreau's journals leading the reader to new discoveries of otherwise overlooked fruit."--Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of Walden: A Fully-Annotated Edition, "One of the most remarkable animal-books of the season. . . . Geoff Wisner follows up his 2016 book Thoreau's Wildflowers with an even more enchanting volume from Yale University Press. . . . Readers of Thoreau's Animals [will be] drawn in by Thoreau's masterfully insightful observations and helped considerably by the lovely drawings throughout done by Debby Cotter Kaspari."--Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor, " Thoreau's Wildflowers collects some of Thoreau's best botanical observations, pairing his prose with black and white drawings by illustrator Barry Moser. The text is drawn from Thoreau's two-million-word journal, a work so massive that few have made their way through it. Most readers of Thoreau's Wildflowers will be meeting these musings on plants for the first time."--Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal "The botanical diary is richly illustrated with Barry Moser's beautiful, very accurate black-and-white drawings. . . . This book will appeal to nature enthusiasts, fans of Thoreau, and those interested in botanical illustration."-- Choice "One of the most remarkable animal-books of the season. . . . Geoff Wisner follows up his 2016 book Thoreau's Wildflowers with an even more enchanting volume from Yale University Press. . . . Readers of Thoreau's Animals [will be] drawn in by Thoreau's masterfully insightful observations and helped considerably by the lovely drawings throughout done by Debby Cotter Kaspari."--Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor " Thoreau's Animals , edited and introduced by Geoff Wisner, offers an engaging and often entertaining selection of Thoreau's writings about the wild and domestic animal species he came upon in the forests, farms, and wetlands in and around Concord. It is a companion volume to Thoreau's Wildflowers , and together the two volumes throw into relief the degree to which Thoreau was almost superhumanly awake to the flora and fauna of his surrounding environment. There is more here than testimony of Thoreau's much-vaunted 'powers of observation.' The volumes offer clear evidence that in his later adult life Thoreau had thoroughly cleansed the doors of perception, and that the world appeared to him as infinite in its local manifestations."--Robert Pogue Harrison, New York Review of Books "Thoreau the observer was also a passionate participant, and his cyclical attunement comes across vividly in two beautifully illustrated books, Thoreau's Animals and Thoreau's Wildflowers , containing journal extracts selected by the writer Geoff Wisner."--Andrea Wulf, The Atlantic "Thoreau's excursions through the woods of Concord were made with a 'true sauntering of the eye.' Geoff Wisner's Thoreau's Wildflowers is a sauntering through the landscape of Thoreau's journals leading the reader to new discoveries of otherwise overlooked fruit."--Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition "This beautifully illustrated book brings Thoreau's voice to life, yielding a fascinating glimpse into the rich botanical world that thrived in New England 150 years ago and that still graces the landscape today."--Elizabeth Farnsworth, New England Wildflower Society "Wisner's seasonal compilation of Thoreau's prolific wildflower observations coupled with Ray Angelo's heralded profile of Thoreau as Botanist provide a delightful read and invaluable resource."--Cherrie Corey, Concord naturalist and photographer, "Thoreau's excursions through the woods of Concord were made with a 'true sauntering of the eye.' Geoff Wisner's Thoreau's Wildflowers is a sauntering through the landscape of Thoreau's journals leading the reader to new discoveries of otherwise overlooked fruit."--Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition "This beautifully illustrated book brings Thoreau's voice to life, yielding a fascinating glimpse into the rich botanical world that thrived in New England 150 years ago and that still graces the landscape today."--Elizabeth Farnsworth, New England Wildflower Society "Wisner's seasonal compilation of Thoreau's prolific wildflower observations coupled with Ray Angelo's heralded profile of Thoreau as Botanist provide a delightful read and invaluable resource."--Cherrie Corey, Concord naturalist and photographer, "This beautifully illustrated book brings Thoreau's voice to life, yielding a fascinating glimpse into the rich botanical world that thrived in New England 150 years ago and that still graces the landscape today."--Elizabeth Farnsworth, New England Wildflower Society, " Thoreau's Wildflowers collects some of Thoreau's best botanical observations, pairing his prose with black and white drawings by illustrator Barry Moser. The text is drawn from Thoreau's two-million-word journal, a work so massive that few have made their way through it. Most readers of Thoreau's Wildflowers will be meeting these musings on plants for the first time."--Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal "The botanical diary is richly illustrated with Barry Moser's beautiful, very accurate black-and-white drawings. . . . This book will appeal to nature enthusiasts, fans of Thoreau, and those interested in botanical illustration."-- Choice "One of the most remarkable animal-books of the season. . . . Geoff Wisner follows up his 2016 book Thoreau's Wildflowers with an even more enchanting volume from Yale University Press. . . . Readers of Thoreau's Animals [will be] drawn in by Thoreau's masterfully insightful observations and helped considerably by the lovely drawings throughout done by Debby Cotter Kaspari."--Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor " Thoreau's Animals , edited and introduced by Geoff Wisner, offers an engaging and often entertaining selection of Thoreau's writings about the wild and domestic animal species he came upon in the forests, farms, and wetlands in and around Concord. It is a companion volume to Thoreau's Wildflowers , and together the two volumes throw into relief the degree to which Thoreau was almost superhumanly awake to the flora and fauna of his surrounding environment. There is more here than testimony of Thoreau's much-vaunted 'powers of observation.' The volumes offer clear evidence that in his later adult life Thoreau had thoroughly cleansed the doors of perception, and that the world appeared to him as infinite in its local manifestations."--Robert Pogue Harrison, New York Review of Books "Thoreau's excursions through the woods of Concord were made with a 'true sauntering of the eye.' Geoff Wisner's Thoreau's Wildflowers is a sauntering through the landscape of Thoreau's journals leading the reader to new discoveries of otherwise overlooked fruit."--Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition "This beautifully illustrated book brings Thoreau's voice to life, yielding a fascinating glimpse into the rich botanical world that thrived in New England 150 years ago and that still graces the landscape today."--Elizabeth Farnsworth, New England Wildflower Society "Wisner's seasonal compilation of Thoreau's prolific wildflower observations coupled with Ray Angelo's heralded profile of Thoreau as Botanist provide a delightful read and invaluable resource."--Cherrie Corey, Concord naturalist and photographer, "The botanical diary is richly illustrated with Barry Moser's beautiful, very accurate black-and-white drawings. . . . This book will appeal to nature enthusiasts, fans of Thoreau, and those interested in botanical illustration."-- Choice, " Thoreau's Wildflowers collects some of Thoreau's best botanical observations, pairing his prose with black and white drawings by illustrator Barry Moser. The text is drawn from Thoreau's two-million-word journal, a work so massive that few have made their way through it. Most readers of Thoreau's Wildflowers will be meeting these musings on plants for the first time."--Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal "The botanical diary is richly illustrated with Barry Moser's beautiful, very accurate black-and-white drawings. . . . This book will appeal to nature enthusiasts, fans of Thoreau, and those interested in botanical illustration."-- Choice "One of the most remarkable animal-books of the season. . . . Geoff Wisner follows up his 2016 book Thoreau's Wildflowers with an even more enchanting volume from Yale University Press. . . . Readers of Thoreau's Animals [will be] drawn in by Thoreau's masterfully insightful observations and helped considerably by the lovely drawings throughout done by Debby Cotter Kaspari."--Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor " Thoreau's Animals , edited and introduced by Geoff Wisner, offers an engaging and often entertaining selection of Thoreau's writings about the wild and domestic animal species he came upon in the forests, farms, and wetlands in and around Concord. It is a companion volume to Thoreau's Wildflowers , and together the two volumes throw into relief the degree to which Thoreau was almost superhumanly awake to the flora and fauna of his surrounding environment. There is more here than testimony of Thoreau's much-vaunted 'powers of observation.' The volumes offer clear evidence that in his later adult life Thoreau had thoroughly cleansed the doors of perception, and that the world appeared to him as infinite in its local manifestations."--Robert Pogue Harrison, New York Review of Books "Thoreau the observer was also a passionate participant, and his cyclical attunement comes across vividly in two beautifully illustrated books, Thoreau's Animals and Thoreau's Wildflowers , containing journal extracts selected by the writer Geoff Wisner."--Andrea Wulf, The Atlantic " Wildowers contains meticulous pen-and-ink renderings of subject plants by famed artist Barry Moser. The precise ink images nicely match Thoreau's botanical accounts, which are typically lucid and exact."--Ed Gilllin, Quarterly Review of Biology "Thoreau's excursions through the woods of Concord were made with a 'true sauntering of the eye.' Geoff Wisner's Thoreau's Wildflowers is a sauntering through the landscape of Thoreau's journals leading the reader to new discoveries of otherwise overlooked fruit."--Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition "This beautifully illustrated book brings Thoreau's voice to life, yielding a fascinating glimpse into the rich botanical world that thrived in New England 150 years ago and that still graces the landscape today."--Elizabeth Farnsworth, New England Wildflower Society "Wisner's seasonal compilation of Thoreau's prolific wildflower observations coupled with Ray Angelo's heralded profile of Thoreau as Botanist provide a delightful read and invaluable resource."--Cherrie Corey, Concord naturalist and photographer, "Thoreau's excursions through the woods of Concord were made with a 'true sauntering of the eye.' Geoff Wisner's Thoreau's Wildflowers is a sauntering through the landscape of Thoreau's journals leading the reader to new discoveries of otherwise overlooked fruit."--Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition
Synopsis
The first collection of Thoreau's writings on the flowering plants of Concord, with more than 200 drawings by renowned artist Barry Moser, 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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QK166

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