Walden's shore : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century science /
Robert M. Thorson.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Rock reality -- Landscape of loss -- Thoreau's Arctic vision -- After the deluge -- Meltdown to beauty -- The Walden system -- Sensing Walden -- Writing Walden -- Interpreting Walden -- Mythology -- Simplicity.
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Literature and science--History--United States--19th century. Nature in literature.