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: Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862 -- Knowledge -- Surveying; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Surveyors -- United States -- Biography; Surveying -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references 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".