The illustrated Walden with photographs from the Gleason collection
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862,
The illustrated Walden with photographs from the Gleason collection Book / Henry David Thoreau ; edited by J. Lyndon Shanley. - xxxiv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - The writings of Henry D. Thoreau .
Formerly CIP.
This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a special love for what he called "the simple beauty of New England," became interested in Thoreau's work when commissioned in 1906 by the Houghton Mifflin Company to illustrate their edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. With the help of the few surviving people who had known Thoreau, Gleason searched out the exact places Thoreau had described?all of them still looking much as they had when Thoreau knew them?and photographed them. Gleason became so interested in the project that he continued to photograph Thoreau country for more than forty years. Most of the photographs reproduced here were chosen by Gleason himself for an edition of Walden he planned but never published.
All.
9780691618227 (paperback) ÃÂã39.95
GBB523155 bnb
017080149 Uk
Solitude.
Self-reliance.
Transcendentalism.
818.303
The illustrated Walden with photographs from the Gleason collection Book / Henry David Thoreau ; edited by J. Lyndon Shanley. - xxxiv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - The writings of Henry D. Thoreau .
Formerly CIP.
This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a special love for what he called "the simple beauty of New England," became interested in Thoreau's work when commissioned in 1906 by the Houghton Mifflin Company to illustrate their edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. With the help of the few surviving people who had known Thoreau, Gleason searched out the exact places Thoreau had described?all of them still looking much as they had when Thoreau knew them?and photographed them. Gleason became so interested in the project that he continued to photograph Thoreau country for more than forty years. Most of the photographs reproduced here were chosen by Gleason himself for an edition of Walden he planned but never published.
All.
9780691618227 (paperback) ÃÂã39.95
GBB523155 bnb
017080149 Uk
Solitude.
Self-reliance.
Transcendentalism.
818.303