Walden’s Shore
- Author : Robert M. Thorson
- Release Date : 2014-01-06
- Publisher : Harvard University Press
- Genre : Literary Criticism
- Language : en
- Number Of Pages : 440 Pages
- ISBN 13 : 0674728416
Download Walden’s Shore by Robert M. Thorson in PDF Full Free and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.