Thoreau the land surveyor
By: Patrick Chura
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780813034935
Subjects: Surveyors; Knowledge; Surveying; Biography; American Authors; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: The surveyor and the state; title: Material to mythology; title: Walden, Cape Cod, and the duty of the coast survey; title: The skillful engineer; title: Serving Admetus; title: The science of the field notes; title: The Concord surveyor and the Kansas surveyor; title: "I am a surveyor".