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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 Mifflin Company to illustrate their edition of __The Writings of Henry David Thoreau__. With the help of the few surviving people who had known Thoreau, Gleason searched out the exact places Thoreau had described—all of them still looking much as they had when Thoreau knew them—and photographed them. Gleason became so interested in the project that he continued to photograph Thoreau country for more than forty years. Most of the photographs reproduced here were chosen by Gleason himself for an edition of __Walden__ he planned but never published. Originally published in 1973. The **Princeton Legacy Library** uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while pr

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Author

Henry David Thoreau (editor); J. Lyndon Shanley (editor)

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691062662

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction