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Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript
Wild Fruits Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript
Author: Henry David Thoreau, Bradley P. Dean (Editor), Abigail Rorer (Illustrator)
The distinctly American gospel -- never before published -- of our great nature writer, mystic, ecologist, and prophet. "Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present . . . . There is something suggested by [the cockcrow] not in Plato nor the New Testament. It is a newer testament -- the Gospel according to this moment," Henry...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393047516
ISBN-10: 0393047512
Publication Date: 11/1999
Pages: 409
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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"The final harvest of our great nature writer's last years, Wild Fruits presents a sacremental vision of nature in which the tension between Thoreau the naturalist and Thoreau the missionary for nature's wonders invigorates nearly every page"
- from back cover

Wild Fruits is an interesting book but definitely read Walden first!


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