Thoreau the Land Surveyor
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An insightful study of how Thoreau's profession as a surveyor
impacts his environmental sensibility and informs his literary
works; further, Chura shows that the manuscript surveys and
corresponding field notes are themselves worthy of literary
analysis. --Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, coeditor of More Day to
Dawn: Thoreau s Walden for the Twenty-first Century Chura's
thorough understanding of the cultural import and physical practice
of 19th-century surveying provides a fresh and interesting
perspective on Thoreau's life and works. . . . .He combines a spry
writing style with meticulous research in this delightful book,
which introduces readers to another side of Thoreau's life and
thought. Highly recommended. --G. D. MacDonald, Virginia State
University Most books about Henry David Thoreau focus on his
writing, philosophy, or literary vision, paying little attention to
how he made a living while engaged in such transcendentalist
pursuits. In Thoreau the Land Surveyor, Patrick Chura corrects this
oversight. --Lorianne DiSabato, The New England QuarterlyA
scholarly book that's as beautiful as it is unput-downable. . . Not
only is Chura a fine writer here, he is one heck of a historian. He
enriches every page with carefully considered research. . . .I
loved this book from start to finish.--Mike Tidwell, author of The
Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojourn. An insightful study of how
Thoreau's profession as a surveyor impacts his environmental
sensibility and informs his literary works; further, Chura shows
that the manuscript surveys and corresponding field notes are
themselves worthy of literary analysis.This book on the
significance of land surveying to Henry Thoreau s writing is one
that we have long needed. Chura's practical experience as a
surveyor combined with his literary scholarship makes him the
perfect person to write it.--Richard J. Schneider, editor ofHenry
David Thoreau: A Documentary VolumeHenry David Thoreau, one of
America s most prominent environmental writers, supported himself
as a land surveyor for much of his life, parceling land that would
be sold off to loggers. In the only study of its kind, Patrick
Chura analyzes this seeming contradiction to show how the best
surveyor in Concord combined civil engineering with civil
disobedience. Placing Thoreau's surveying in historical context,
Thoreau the Land Surveyor explains the cultural and ideological
implications of surveying work in the mid-nineteenth century. Chura
explains the ways that Thoreau's environmentalist disposition and
philosophical convictions asserted themselves even as he reduced
the land to measurable terms and acted as an agent for bringing it
under proprietary control. He also describes in detail Thoreau's
1846 survey of Walden Pond. By identifying the origins of Walden
in--of all places--surveying data, Chura re-creates a previously
lost supporting manuscript of this American classic.
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