{"product_id":"learning-from-thoreau-9780820353432","title":"Learning from Thoreau","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLearning from Thoreau\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate intellectual walk with America's most edgy and original environmentalist. The thrust of the book consists not in learning \"about\" Thoreau from an intermediary but, as the title suggests, in learning \"from\" Thoreau along with the author--whose lifelong engagement with this \"genius of the natural world\" leads him to examine the process of learning from an admired model. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing both images and text, Andrew Menard offers a personal meditation on Thoreau's thought, its originality, and its influence on the modern environmental movement. He places Thoreau in dialogue with contemporary artists and thinkers and associates him with a rich variety of places: Walden Pond, the Museum of Modern Art, the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in upstate New York, Mormon Mesa northeast of Las Vegas, and the old town of K nigsberg, Prussia. Each place, each experience, each writer, and each work of art provides a different line of approach. The author also leads us through an expanding and deepening series of keywords that trigger fresh occasions to learn from Thoreau: Concord, Walden, walking, seeing, nature, wildness, beauty. The result is a deeply nuanced and informed portrait of Thoreau's inner and outer landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Menard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820353432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANDREW MENARD is a writer, artist, and critic, and author of \u003ci\u003eSight Unseen: How Frémont's First Expedition Changed the American Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40198543245427,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e1cdcff4-105c-4c6f-81d8-e71b521ce945.jpg?v=1656078390","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/learning-from-thoreau-9780820353432","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}