Schnur (The Shadow Children) deftly plucks Thoreau's own words from Walden, and Fiore's (The Boston Tea Party) luminous watercolor and oil paintings affectingly evoke the simplicity and serenity of this man's existence on his beloved...
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Henry David Thoreau, Author Pocket Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64526-7
When the headless body of a teenaged Chinese-American model turns up in a L.A. cocaine dealer's bed, ex-vice cop Jimmy Lujack helps track down the killer. A tip leads to a waterfront condominium complex where billionaire U.S. defense contractors and
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Henry David Thoreau, Author, Steve Lowe, Editor, Robert Clarke Sabuda, Illustrator Philomel Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22153-8
Shrinking Walden into picture book size is somewhat like trying to fit Moby Dick into an aquarium. Still, Lowe's selections from Thoreau's iconoclastic work will give children a brief taste of this classic. Using only quotations from the original...
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Henry David Thoreau, Author, Bradley P. Dean, Editor, Abigail Rorer, Illustrator Island Press $29.95 (301p) ISBN 978-1-55963-182-2
Dean, the editor of the Thoreau Society Bulletin, has culled essays from the notebooks Thoreau left behind at his death, works that illuminate the scientific side of the pioneering naturalist. (Apr.)
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Henry David Thoreau, Author, Bradley P. Dean, Editor, Abigail Rorer, Illustrator Island Press $35 (301p) ISBN 978-1-55963-181-5
At his death in 1862, naturalist Thoreau left behind a dozen notebooks and other materials. From those hard-to-decipher handwritten pages, Dean, the editor of the Thoreau Society Bulletin , has rescued an unexpected treasure--Thoreau's scientific...
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Henry David Thoreau, Author, Bradley P. Dean, Editor, Abigail Rorer, Illustrator W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (409p) ISBN 978-0-393-04751-6
Thoreau's Walden (1854) is regarded both as a masterpiece of American prose and as a forerunner of modern environmentalism. Its author spent much of the 1850s learning what botany could teach him about the New England woods he chronicled. Thoreau...
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Eliot Porter, Author, Eliot Porter, Photographer, Henry David Thoreau, Author Random House (NY) $35 (166p) ISBN 978-0-87156-793-2
A new generation has come of age since this elegant volume was published 26 years ago (it has been out of print since 1975). Readers will welcome the new edition, which evokes the same awe and admiration for the combination of Thoreau's prose and...
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