Thoreaus Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing

Contributor(s): Schneider, Richard J (Editor), Buell, Lawrence (Foreword by)

ISBN: 9780877457206

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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Pub Date: May 1, 2000

Dewey: 818.309

LCCN: 99058112

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.78" H x 9.26" L x 5.83" W ( 0.99 lbs) 324 pages

BISAC Categories:

Literary Collections | Essays | Nature

Series: American Land & Life

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Description: The contributors to this work address how the environmentalist Henry David Thoreau and his successors attempted to cope with the epistemological split between the perceiver and place inherent in writing about nature. They discuss the kinds of discourse most effective for writing about place.