The Illustrated WALDEN with Photographs from the Gleason Collection

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Illustrated WALDEN with Photographs from the Gleason Collection
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Henry David Thoreau
Edited by J. Lyndon Shanley
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:456
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenrePhotographs: collections
Western philosophy - c 1600 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9780691645230
ClassificationsDewey:818.303
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

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 Miffli