Overview
The final harvest of our great nature writer's last years, Wild Fruits presents Thoreau's distinctly American gospel a sacramental vision of nature in which "the tension between Thoreau the naturalist and Thoreau the missionary for nature's wonders invigorates nearly every page" ( Time ). In transcribing the 150 year old manuscript's cryptic handwriting and complex notations, Thoreau specialist Bradley Dean has performed a "heroic feat of decipherment" ( Booklist ) to bring this great work to light. Readers will discover "passages that reach for the transcendentalist ideal of writing new scriptures, yet grounding this Bible in a vision of practical ecology" ( Boston ). Beautifully illustrated throughout with line drawings of the natural life Thoreau considers on his walks, Wild Fruits is "well worth any nature lover's attention" ( Christian Science Monitor ).
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780393321159
- ISBN-10: 0393321150
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: February 2001
- Dimensions: 9.25 x 7.03 x 1.11 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.81 pounds
- Page Count: 432
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