Synopses & Reviews
The final harvest of our great nature writer's last years, presents Thoreau's distinctly American gospel--a sacramental vision of nature in which "the tension between Thoreau the naturalist and Thoreau the missionary for nature's wonders invigorates nearly every page" (). In transcribing the 150-year-old manuscript's cryptic handwriting and complex notations, Thoreau specialist Bradley Dean has performed a "heroic feat of decipherment" () to bring this great work to light. Readers will discover "passages that reach for the transcendentalist ideal of writing new scriptures, yet grounding this Bible in a vision of practical ecology" (). Beautifully illustrated throughout with line drawings of the natural life Thoreau considers on his walks, is "well worth any nature lover's attention" ().
Synopsis
"This wonderful book is both a practical and a philosophical field guide to the natural gifts of the American countryside."--
About the Author
Bradley P. Dean, an independent scholar living in West Peterborough, New Hampshire, has written extensively on Thoreau's life and writings, and has edited two of Thoreau's previously unpublished booklength manuscripts.