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The Illustrated Walden With Photographs
Thoreau, Henry David. Ed(S): Shanley, J. Lyndon
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Description for The Illustrated Walden With Photographs
Hardback. Editor(s): Shanley, J. Lyndon. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 456 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
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 Mifflin Company to illustrate their edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. With the help of the few surviving people who had known Thoreau, Gleason searched out the exact places Thoreau had described--all of them still looking much as they had when Thoreau knew them--and photographed them. Gleason became so interested in the project that he continued to photograph Thoreau country for more than forty years. Most of the photographs reproduced here were chosen by Gleason himself for an edition of Walden he planned but never published. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Series
Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691645230
SKU
V9780691645230
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