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    Henry David Thoreau: A Life

    Laura Dassow Walls

    A full accounting of Thoreau’s life that takes him, his writings, and his ideas seriously and puts him in the context of his place and time.

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    Henry David Thoreau: A Life

    Laura Dassow Walls

    A full accounting of Thoreau’s life that takes him, his writings, and his ideas seriously and puts him in the context of his place and time.

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    The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander Von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

    Laura Dassow Walls

    Traces explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt’s ideas for his book Cosmos to his 1799 journey to the Americas, where he first experienced the diversity of nature and…

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    The Passage to Cosmos

    Laura Dassow Walls

    Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. This title traces Humboldt’s ideas for…

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    Henry David Thoreau: A Life

    Laura Dassow Walls

    A full accounting of Thoreau’s life that takes him, his writings, and his ideas seriously and puts him in the context of his place and time.

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    Henry David Thoreau: A Life

    Laura Dassow Walls

    A full accounting of Thoreau’s life that takes him, his writings, and his ideas seriously and puts him in the context of his place and time.

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    Henry David Thoreau: A Life

    Laura Dassow Walls

    A full accounting of Thoreau’s life that takes him, his writings, and his ideas seriously and puts him in the context of his place and time.

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    Emerson’s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth

    Laura Dassow Walls (Associate Professor of English, Lafayette College, USA)

    Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and mystic. Laura Dassow Walls argues for him as a leader of the secular avant-garde of his day, who helped establish science…

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    Westward I Go Free: Tracing Thoreau’s Last Journey

    Corinne Hosfeld Smith

    A Flaneur/Peripatetic Production –T.p. verso.

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    The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season

    Henry David Thoreau

    Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.

    Modernity rules our lives by clock…

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    Thoreauvian Modernities: Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon

    Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of pure nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian…

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    Thoreau beyond Borders: New International Essays on America’s Most Famous Nature Writer

    Deliberately invoking Henry David Thoreau’s commitment to living a border life , a life located between the world of nature and that of the polis, these varied essays explore the…

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    Thoreau beyond Borders: New International Essays on America’s Most Famous Nature Writer

    Deliberately invoking Henry David Thoreau’s commitment to living a border life , a life located between the world of nature and that of the polis, these varied essays explore the…

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    Views of Nature

    Alexander Von Humboldt,Stephen T. Jackson,Laura Dassow Walls,Mark W. Person

    The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland set the course for…

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    Views of Nature

    Alexander Von Humboldt,Stephen T. Jackson,Laura Dassow Walls,Mark W. Person

    The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland set the course for…

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    The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery

    Naomi Pasachoff,Jay Pasachoff,Rob Iliffe,Frank A.J.L. James

    Tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. This title…

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    Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice

    This interdisciplinary collection explores Victorian literature and its connection to various fields such as environmental history, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Further, the edition features seminal nineteenth-century figures advancing the cause…

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    Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice

    This interdisciplinary collection explores Victorian literature and its connection to various fields such as environmental history, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Further, the edition features seminal nineteenth-century figures advancing the cause…

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