The Illustrated WALDEN with Photographs from the Gleason Collection |
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| Author:
| Thoreau, Henry David. |
| Editor:
| Shanley, J. Lyndon |
| Series title: | Writings of Henry D. Thoreau Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-64523-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $184.00 |
Book Description:
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This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a special love for what he called "the simple beauty of New England," became interested in Thoreau's work when commissioned in 1906 by the Houghton Miffli
This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a special love for what he called "the simple beauty of New England," became interested in Thoreau's work when commissioned in 1906 by the Houghton Miffli