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University of California Press; 2017. First printing. Cloth hardcover book. Foreword by Robert D. Richardson. 230 pages including an Index. Illustrated with black & white photographs and several line drawings.
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Thoreau and the Language of Trees Hardcover - 2017
by Richard Higgins; Foreword by Robert D. Richardson
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"Thoreau and the Language of Trees is an exquisite book physically as well as a piece of literary beauty. The silver embossed cover on green linen and the structure of the book and chapter headings in bold read as a prose poem, and the photographs with Thoreau's drawings animate the ideas that unfurl organically."--Terry Tempest Williams, author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
"This beautiful book brings us face to face with one of Thoreau's true passions--his love for trees, leaf by leaf and in the whole. Richard Higgins interweaves a generous selection of Thoreau's writings and drawings, classic Herbert Wendell Gleason photographs of trees long gone, and his own extraordinary photographs of trees in our time. To round off the feast, each chapter opens with one of Higgins's graceful and deeply informed essays. Few books satisfy the eye, the mind, and the heart so fully as this one: one part elegy, two parts celebration, deep-rooted in the earth, and brimful with sheer joy."--Laura Dassow Walls, author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life"In Thoreau's era, unbroken forest stretched from New England to the Mississippi. Trees were always his best companions. He studied them with love and care, and from that knowledge built noble lessons for us all on how to live. As a writer and photographer, Richard Higgins has made of that material a brilliant, evocative book about the precious natural heritage of North America."--William Howarth, author of The Book of Concord and Walking with Thoreau "Thoreau wrote that 'trees indeed have hearts.' In compiling this expressive compilation of Thoreau's writings on trees, Richard Higgins has indeed found the heart and the soul of the tree. We have much to learn about ourselves from the tree: from its strength as well as its pliancy; from its life stages from seedling to sapling to eventual death; and from its place in the community. Higgins helps us to see the forest for the trees."--Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of The Portable Thoreau "Thoreau and the Language of Trees provides an unusually patient and devoted reading and interrogation of Thoreau's primary works. The world as reported here is both Thoreau's and Higgins's; a capable and objective reporter in his own right, Higgins traverses the century and a half that nominally separates him from Thoreau with an ease that enables him to convey his subject's lifelong interest in trees and their language to modern readers."--Ronald A. Bosco, Distinguished Research Professor of American Literature, University at Albany, SUNY "Thoreau and the Language of Trees elegantly fills a significant, previously unoccupied niche. The perceptive introduction and thematic chapter essays combine with quotations and sketches by Thoreau and with new and vintage photographs to form a masterfully guided tour--a tour whose visionary sylvan revelations speak to the imagination and the intellect."--Ronald Wesley Hoag, East Carolina University
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- Title Thoreau and the Language of Trees
- Author Richard Higgins; Foreword by Robert D. Richardson
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Oakland, CA
- Date 2017-04-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780520294042 / 0520294041
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (20.57 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
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- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Thoreau, Henry David - Criticism and, Thoreau, Henry David - Knowledge - Natural
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016046907
- Dewey Decimal Code 818.309
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University of California Press, 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First printing, signed in blue ink by Higgins on the title page. With a handsome stamp in green ink on the half title saying "This book was purchased at the Old Manse, Concord, MA (1769)," which is a cool addition: The Old Manse is where Emerson wrote "Nature" and Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne spent their extended honeymoon of several years (Thoreau planted them a garden as wedding present; Hawthorne wrote a short story collection there called Mosses at the Old Manse). The stamp depicts the Manse and its trees. Higgins lives in Concord. Foreword by the late Robert D. Richardson, leading scholar of Thoreau and the other Transcendentalists, and Annie Dillard's husband. Uncommon signed. Fine with faint rubbing to corners; still fine. No jacket as issued. We invite you to explore our growing collection of signed and inscribed books related to Thoreau. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing,…
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