Thoreau and the American Indians /
The book traces Thoreau's fascination with American-Indian life, his attempts to learn about it and imitate it, and also some of the differences between the Indians he read and wrote about and as they were. Sayre has put in order and analyzed the voluminous body of Indian details and emblems gi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1977.
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| Summary: | The book traces Thoreau's fascination with American-Indian life, his attempts to learn about it and imitate it, and also some of the differences between the Indians he read and wrote about and as they were. Sayre has put in order and analyzed the voluminous body of Indian details and emblems given in$ A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden, The Maine Woods,$the$ Journals,$and the twelve "indian Books." |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 239 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0691063303 9780691063300 |