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Walden’s Shore

Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science

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Publication Date: 09/07/2015

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  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • I. The Place of the Book
    • 1. Rock Reality
    • 2. Landscape of Loss
    • 3. Thoreau’s Arctic Vision
    • 4. After the Deluge
    • 5. Meltdown to Beauty
  • Interlude
    • 6. The Walden System
  • II. The Book of the Place
    • 7. Sensing Walden
    • 8. Writing Walden
    • 9. Interpreting Walden
    • 10. Mythology
    • 11. Simplicity
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Index

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