- Preface
- Prologue: One Man’s Journal
- Three Landscapes in New England History
- The Cultural Landscape of New England
- Views of the Nineteenth-Century Countryside
- Daily Life
- The Farmer as Hero
- Meadows and Mowers
- Stone Walls and Other Fences
- A Natural History of Woodlands
- Woodlands and Sproutlands
- Forest Land Use and Woodland Practices
- Firewood and Other Fuels
- Wildfire: A Human and Natural Force
- The Coming of the New Forest
- Social Change and Farm Abandonment in New England
- The Succession of Forest Trees
- Losses and Change
- Animals: From Bobolinks to Bears
- The Passenger Pigeon
- The American Chestnut
- Stepping Back and Looking Ahead
- Reading Forest and Landscape History
- Landscape Change
- Insights into the Ecology and Conservation of the Land
- Bibliographic Essay
- Bibliography
- Index
Thoreau’s Country
Journey through a Transformed Landscape
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ISBN 9780674006683
Publication Date: 12/21/2001
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