02672nam 2200625Ia 450 991046439130332120200520144314.00-8130-3827-80-8130-4350-6(CKB)3450000000003181(EBL)1023594(OCoLC)811563584(SSID)ssj0000628802(PQKBManifestationID)11393244(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628802(PQKBWorkID)10712164(PQKB)10199244(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035265(MiAaPQ)EBC1023594(MdBmJHUP)muse22425(Au-PeEL)EBL1023594(CaPaEBR)ebr10603020(CaONFJC)MIL513081(EXLCZ)99345000000000318120100305d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThoreau the land surveyor[electronic resource] /Patrick ChuraGainesville, FL University Press of Floridac20101 online resource (231 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8130-3493-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.The surveyor and the state -- Material to mythology -- Walden, Cape Cod, and the duty of the coast survey -- The skillful engineer -- Serving Admetus -- The science of the field notes -- The Concord surveyor and the Kansas surveyor -- "I am a surveyor". Henry 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 environmeAuthors, American19th centuryBiographySurveyorsUnited StatesBiographySurveyingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Authors, AmericanSurveyorsSurveyingHistory818/.309BChura Patrick1964-953545MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464391303321Thoreau the land surveyor2156076UNINA