I Begin with Spring weaves natural history around Thoreauās life and times in a richly illustrated field notebook format that can be opened anywhere and invites browsing on every page. Beginning each season with quotes from Thoreauās schoolboy essay about the changing seasons, Early Bloomer follows him through the fields and woods of Concord, the joys and challenges of growing up, his experiment with simple living on Walden Pond, and his participation in the abolition movement, self-reliance, science, and literature.
The bookās two organizing themesāthe chronology of Thoreauās life and the seasonal cycle beginning with springāinteract seamlessly on every spread, suggesting the correspondence of human seasons with natureās. Thoreauās annual records of blooms, bird migrations, and other natural events scroll in a timeline across the page bottoms, and the backmatter includes a summary of how those dates have changed from his day to ours and what that tells us about the science of phenology and climate change.
Megan Barattaās watercolors are augmented with historical images and reproductions of Thoreauās own sketches to create a high-interest visual experience. The book includes a foreword from Thoreau scholar Jeffrey Cramer, Curator of Collections for the Walden Woods Project.
This book title, I Begin with Spring (The Life and Seasons of Henry David Thoreau), ISBN: 9780884489085, by Julie Dunlap, Megan Elizabeth Baratta, published by Tilbury House Publishers (February 1, 2022) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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