The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau's River Years, Hardcover/Robert M. Thorson
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The Boatman gives readers a Thoreau for the Anthropocene epoch. As
a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Thoreau was keenly
aware of the way humans had altered the waterways and meadows of
his beloved Concord River Valley. And he recognized that he
himself--a land surveyor by trade--was as complicit in these
transformations as the bankers, lawyers, builders, landowners, and
elected officials who were his clients. Robert Thorson tells a
compelling story of intellectual growth, as Thoreau moved from
anger, to lament, to acceptance of the way humans had changed the
river he cherished more than Walden Pond. In his twenties, Thoreau
had contemplated industrial sabotage against a downstream factory
dam. By the mid-1850s he realized that humans and an "imperfect"
nature were inseparable. His beliefs and scientific understanding
of the river would be challenged again when he was hired in 1859 as
a technical consultant for the River Meadow Association, in
America's first statewide case for dam removal--a veritable
class-action suit of more than five hundred petitioners that pitted
local farmers against industrialists. Thorson offers the most
complete account to date of this "flowage controversy," including
Thoreau's behind-the-scenes investigations and the political
corruption that eventually carried the day. In the years after the
publication of Walden (1854), the river boatman's joy in the
natural world was undiminished by the prospect of environmental
change. Increasingly, he sought out for solace and pleasure those
river sites most dramatically altered by human invention and
intervention--for better and worse.
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