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A selection of poetry penned by Roland Wells Robbins, known best for the man who located the original site of Henry Thoreau's house next to Walden Pond. Here they are "quaintly illustrated" by Karl E. Genthner, with calligraphy by Kristina Joyce.
Academy Books, 1938, Second Printing, 1986. Paperback, 88 pp.
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This special bicentennial issue of the periodical features 13 thematic essays about Henry David Thoreau. Contents: Introduction: Thoreau Bicentennial Essays / Richard J. Schneider; "The sun is but a morning star:" Thoreau's Future / Daniel S. Malachuk; The Samarae of Thought: Thoreau's Gathered Timescapes / Laura Dassow Walls; Nature, Necessity, and the Philosophy of Metaphor in Walden / Benjamin Mangrum; Thoreau's Periodic Sentences, Experiential Transcendentalism, and Scientific Method / Walter Hesford; "A Greater Vital Force:" Rhetorical Affinities between Thoreau and Darwin / Christina Root; Henry David Thoreau, American Subversive: Sensory Balance in Walden / Frank Izaguirre; Thoreau's Sound Reasoning / John Hay; Living Poems in Thoreau's Prose / Lizzy LeRud; The Red Flannel Shirt: The Dynamic Clothing Metaphor in The Maine Woods / Anne Beebe; "Wild Apples" and Thoreau's Commitment to Wildness in the Last Decade of His Life / Albena Bakratcheva; From Tracing to Writing: The Maps that Thoreau Copied / Julien Negre; Found in Translation: Panait Musoiu and the First Translation of Walden in Romania / Iuliu Ratiu.
San Diego State University, 2017. Paperback, 264 pp.
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A work of fiction based in the fictitious town of Merriville, Vermont. Revolves around characters who graduate from the local high school in 1963, and it follows thrm through their lives until they reach the age of 65. Includes the stories of parents, siblings, children, friends, lovers, employers, and the town of Merriville itself. What did they gain? What did they lose? What did they learn?
Shires Press, 2011. Paperback, 265 pp.
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It's an annual tradition! Every year, local photographer Barbara Olson issues a colorful calendar with photographs from Walden Pond, Concord, and beyond. Enjoy these views of one of your favorite areas, throughout the coming year. Monthly pages include the usual holidays, as well as remarkable dates in Thoreavian history. A perfect gift for a special person, or for yourself.
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Offers an up-close, on-the-ground look at some of the remarkable and courageous people who have laid everything on the line to build and inspire the fast-growing movement for climate justice in America. Argues that the movement must b less like environmentalism as we know it and more like the great human-rights and social-justice struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from abolitionism to civil rights -- a struggle for human solidarity.
Beacon Press, 2015. Paperback, 239 pp.
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Millman journeys through the west of Ireland, a rugged geography sometimes referred to as "the last place on earth where conversation is not dead." Along the way, he meets tinkers, tramps, rat charmers, pig-gelders, and farriers -- craftspeople who have become anachronisms in an increasingly industrialized country. This book is at once a lament for and a celebration of a dying way of life. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
M. Evans, 1977, 2015. Paperback, 209 pp.
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The first world travel guide for birders, with the best birding spots in the world described for the first time in a single volume. Tells you where to base, where to find birds, what species you can expect to see, how common or rare they are, what forms of transportation are available, what roads to take, what sights shouldn't be missed, and what to do when you're not birding. Shows you where to find more than half of all bird species in the world. SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR PETER ALDEN.
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. Hardcover with dust jacket, 683 pp.
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Mark Bittman proposes a plan for responsible eating that calls attention to the ways government policy, big business marketing, and global economics influence what we put on our tables. With more than 75 recipes that are as good for the planet as they are for your weight and your health.
Simon & Schuster, 2009, 2010. Paperback, 326 pp.
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Rod Giblett built his own house by Forrestdale Lake in 1986 and has lived in it ever since. For several years he kept a nature journal from which the firt part of this book is drawn. He is a local conservationist of bushland and wetlands in Forrestdale and has been Secretary of the Friends of Forrestdale for more than 20 years. Black Swan Lake is a unique synthesis of bioregional knowledge, historical and philosophical reflection, and autobiographical narrative with a distinctly personal stamp.
Intellect, 2013. Paperback, 195 pp.
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A literary discussion of about one-half of Zane Grey's Westerns, selected to best show the broad scope of this popular author's interest in the West. Central is Grey's ecological concern for the natural world -- its vastness, color and beauty. Close parallels are drawn throughout the book between Grey's work and the philosophy and writings of Thoreau. Note particularly Chapter 15 -- "The Vanishing American: A Thoreauvian Native."
McFarland & Company, 2014. Soft Cover, 6 x 9 inch format, 228 pp.
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A photographic slide lecture come into print, presented by Esther Howe Wheeler. Color photographs are paired with quotes from Henry David Thoreau.
Paperback, 168 pp.
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Chronicles David Van Wie's six-week odyssey from Maine to Wisconsin and back where he not only explores and fly-fishes America's most storied waters, but also celebrates the writers and artists who made them famous. His first chapter is "Fishing for Inspiration at Walden Pond."
Stackpole Books, 2019. Paperback, 216 pp.
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The
distinctly American gospel -- never before published -- of our great nature
writer, mystic, ecologist, and prophet.The final harvest of a great
writer's last years, Wild Fruits
presents Thoreau's sacramental vision of nature--a vision compelling in
part because it grew out of an approach to the natural world at once
scientific and mystical. The difficulties of Thoreau's handwriting,
method of composition, notations, and pagination have kept his final
observations and meditations from publication until now; thanks to the
assiduous efforts of Thoreau specialist Bradley Dean, this great work
can finally be brought to light. Features illustrations by Abigail Rorer. This book was reviewed in Thoreau Society Bulletin 230, Winter 2000, p. 3. May also be available in paperback. W. W. Norton, 2000. Hardback First Edition, 409 pp. |
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