The Illustrated WALDEN with Photographs from the Gleason Collection

ISBN: 9780691618227 出版年：2015 页码：453 Thoreau, Henry David Princeton University Press

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.