The Heart of Thoreau's Journals
by Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard
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Read in February, 2008
Thoreau is his usual ornery/visionary self in these journals: always complaining about something. Interesting to think of the different 19th century "journal styles": Thoreau seems closer to Emerson, for example, than the Englishman Francis Kilvert, though all three of their notebooks are similarly obsessed with nature.
Nature for Americans is something to hang your hat on, and that's what so hilarious to me about this book. Here's Thoreau, proto-hippie, inventor of American wilder...more
Nature for Americans is something to hang your hat on, and that's what so hilarious to me about this book. Here's Thoreau, proto-hippie, inventor of American wilder...more
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