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Robert M. Thorson
Walden s Shore [EPUB ebook]
Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science

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Walden s Shore explores Thoreau s understanding of the living rock on which life s complexity depends not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson s subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist, whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.

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Formato EPUB ● Páginas 440 ● ISBN 9780674728400 ● Editorial Harvard University Press ● Publicado 2014 ● Descargable 6 veces ● Divisa EUR ● ID 2863878 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM

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