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The Year Is a Circle - A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau - cover

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The Year Is a Circle - A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau

Victor Carl Friesen

Publisher: Dundurn

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Henry David Thoreau is remembered as a foremost nature writer. He was an ecologist before the term was invented. A man of many parts, including social critic, he is known to have had an influence on such internationally recognized leaders as Gandhi and Martin Luther King.  
"Victor Carl Friesen, author of The Spirit of the Huckleberry, an astute analysis of Henry David Thoreau's prose, again demonstrates his affinity for the Walden sage with this unique volume of poems and photographs. Taking a series of quotations demonstrating Thoreau's sensuousness, he writes a poem for each and then illustrates them with outstanding colour photographs. The poems, mostly written in the blank verse form, have sturdy strength and remarkable insight into both Thoreau and nature." 
- Walter Harding, Founding Secretary, The Thoreau Society Inc., State University of New York, Genesco  
"Friesen is particularly qualified as a Thoreau scholar, for his personal interests extend well beyond literature to include natural history, a subject very much at the centre of Thoreau's writings." 
- Canadian Book Review Annual
Available since: 11/15/2002.

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