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Product Description: Waldenâs Shore explores Thoreauâs understanding of the âliving rockâ on which lifeâs complexity dependsânot as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorsonâs 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...read more
Hardcover:
9780674724785 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 6, 2014, cover price $31.50 | About this edition: "Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward," Thoreau invites his readers in Walden, "till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality.
Paperback:
9780674088184 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 7, 2015, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Waldenâs Shore explores Thoreauâs understanding of the âliving rockâ on which lifeâs complexity dependsânot as metaphor but as physical science.
Product Description: The geology, ecology, and cultural history of kettle lakes from Maine to Montana. Lakes are a beloved part of the American landscape, and kettles are the most common type, spanning the northern part of the country from New England to the High Plains...read more
Hardcover:
9780802716453 | Walker & Co, May 19, 2009, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The geology, ecology, and cultural history of kettle lakes from Maine to Montana.
Presents a geo-archeological study of New England's stone walls exploring how they were built, their physical properties, and the function and structure of the walls.
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9780802713940 | Walker & Co, October 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Presents a geo-archeological study of New England's stone walls exploring how they were built, their physical properties, and the function and structure of the walls.
Paperback:
9780802776877 | Reprint edition (Walker & Co, March 1, 2004), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Presents a geo-archeological study of New England's stone walls exploring how they were built, their physical properties, and the function and structure of the walls.
As he and his grandson walk along the stone walls surrounding his New England farm, an old man shares stories about the geologic history of the stones as well as some of the memories they hold for him.
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9780606337458 | Demco Media, June 1, 2001, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: As he and his grandson walk along the stone walls surrounding his New England farm, an old man shares stories about the geologic history of the stones as well as some of the memories they hold for him.
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