Wild Apples

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820326368

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Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood became increasingly urbanized and industrialized. William Rossi's introduction puts the essays in the context of Thoreau's other major works, both chronologically and intellectually. Rossi also shows how these writings relate to Thoreau's life and career as both writer and naturalist: his readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Darwin; his failed bid for commercial acceptance of his work; and his pivotal encounter with the utter wildness of the Maine woods. In the essays themselves, readers will see how Thoreau melded conventions of natural history writing with elements of two popular literary forms--travel writing and landscape writing--to explore concerns ranging from America's westward expansion to the figural dimensions of scientific facts and phenomena. Thoreau the thinker, observer, wanderer, and inquiring naturalist--all emerge in this distinctive composite picture of the economic, natural, and spiritual communities that left their marks on one of our most important early environmentalists.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781557091307

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Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

A meditation on apples begins with a short history of the apple tree, tracing its path from ancient Greece to America. Thoreau saw the apple as a perfect mirror of man and eloquently lamented where they both were heading.

Author : Grace MacGowan Cooke
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1330905172

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Wild Apples by Grace MacGowan Cooke Pdf

Excerpt from Wild Apples: A California Story When he got into the room, there was his mother looking very queer and excited - but very handsome, too. She called him over to her and took hold of his arm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Henry David Thoreav
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1918-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreav Pdf

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau Part III : (Wild Apples + The Maine Woods + Resistance to Civil Government ) by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Wild Apples The Maine Woods Resistance to Civil Government

Author : Lucinda Franks
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-12
Category : Farm life
ISBN : 0380719231

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Wild Apples by Lucinda Franks Pdf

Author : Andy Brennan
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781603588454

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Uncultivated by Andy Brennan Pdf

Today, food is being reconsidered. It’s a front-and-center topic in everything from politics to art, from science to economics. We know now that leaving food to government and industry specialists was one of the twentieth century’s greatest mistakes. The question is where do we go from here. Author Andy Brennan describes uncultivation as a process: It involves exploring the wild; recognizing that much of nature is omitted from our conventional ways of seeing and doing things (our cultivations); and realizing the advantages to embracing what we’ve somehow forgotten or ignored. For most of us this process can be difficult, like swimming against the strong current of our modern culture. The hero of this book is the wild apple. Uncultivated follows Brennan’s twenty-four-year history with naturalized trees and shows how they have guided him toward successes in agriculture, in the art of cider making, and in creating a small-farm business. The book contains useful information relevant to those particular fields, but is designed to connect the wild to a far greater audience, skillfully blending cultural criticism with a food activist’s agenda. Apples rank among the most manipulated crops in the world, because not only do farmers want perfect fruit, they also assume the health of the tree depends on human intervention. Yet wild trees live all around us, and left to their own devices, they achieve different forms of success that modernity fails to apprehend. Andy Brennan learned of the health and taste advantages of such trees, and by emulating nature in his orchard (and in his cider) he has also enjoyed environmental and financial benefits. None of this would be possible by following today’s prevailing winds of apple cultivation. In all fields, our cultural perspective is limited by a parallel proclivity. It’s not just agriculture: we all must fight tendencies toward specialization, efficiency, linear thought, and predetermined growth. We have cultivated those tendencies at the exclusion of nature’s full range. If Uncultivated is about faith in nature, and the power it has to deliver us from our own mistakes, then wild apple trees have already shown us the way.

Author : Frank Asch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Cows
ISBN : 0823406776

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Oats and Wild Apples by Frank Asch Pdf

A calf and fawn meet and learn about each others' lives, but in the end prefer to be near their mothers.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368330767

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Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

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Author : Louise Westling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107029927

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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment by Louise Westling Pdf

This authoritative collection of rigorous but accessible essays investigates the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism.

Author : Creighton Lee Calhoun
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781603583121

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Old Southern Apples by Creighton Lee Calhoun Pdf

A book that became an instant classic when it first appeared in 1995, Old Southern Apples is an indispensable reference for fruit lovers everywhere, especially those who live in the southern United States. Out of print for several years, this newly revised and expanded edition now features descriptions of some 1,800 apple varieties that either originated in the South or were widely grown there before 1928. Author Lee Calhoun was one of the foremost figures in apple conservation in America. This masterwork reflects his knowledge and personal experience over more than thirty years, as he sought out and grew hundreds of classic apples, including both legendary varieties (like Nickajack and Magnum Bonum) and little-known ones (like Buff and Cullasaga). Representing our common orchard heritage, many of these apples are today at risk of disappearing from our national table. Illustrated with more than 120 color images of classic apples from the National Agricultural Library’s collection of watercolor paintings, Old Southern Apples is a fascinating and beautiful reference and gift book. In addition to A-to-Z descriptions of apple varieties, both extant and extinct, Calhoun provides a brief history of apple culture in the South, and includes practical information on growing apples and on their traditional uses.

Author : Schuyler S. Korban
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030746827

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The Apple Genome by Schuyler S. Korban Pdf

This book covers information on the economics; botany, taxonomy, and origin; germplasm resources; cytogenetics and nuclear DNA; genetic improvement efforts of scion cultivars; genetic and genomic improvement efforts of rootstocks; genetic and physical mapping; genomic resources; genome and epigenome; regulatory sequences; utility of whole-genome sequencing and gene editing in trait dissection; flowering and juvenility; cold hardiness and dormancy; fruit color development; fruit acidity and sugar content; metabolomics; biology and genomics of the microbiome; apple domestication; as well as other ‘omics’ opportunities and challenges for genetic improvement of the apple. The cultivated apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) is one of the most important tree fruit crops of temperate regions of the world. It is widely cultivated and grown in North America, Europe, and Asia. The apple fruit is a highly desirable fruit due to its flavor, sugar and acid content, metabolites, aroma, as well as its overall texture and palatability. Furthermore, it is a rich source of important nutrients, including antioxidants, vitamins, and dietary fiber.

Author : Chen Shimuren
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647812232

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Insect Witness by Chen Shimuren Pdf

Forensic insect scholar Shen Yuan visited his girlfriend and learned that she had been killed on Bird Island. Although his girlfriend's parents identified her on the spot and DNA evidence confirmed that her girlfriend was murdered, insects removed from the body were tested to infer that his girlfriend shouldn't have been killed at the time of the murder. In order to uncover the truth of the matter, Criminal Police Ding Wei launched an investigation --This is the first domestic and foreign comprehensive novel using insect breaking technology. Insects live over four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, involving dozens of species of flies.

Author : Kevin T. Dann
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bioregionalism
ISBN : 1584650729

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Lewis Creek Lost and Found by Kevin T. Dann Pdf

Well known for his imaginative treatment of environmental issues, Kevin Dann presents a natural history of the Lewis Creek watershed in Vermont's Champlain Valley, told largely through the lives and thought of three individuals,whose investigations brought them into close contact with the area. Congregationalist minister John Perry (1825 - 1872) conducted paleontological research on the region's Paleozoic rock and attempted to negotiate his era's confrontation between science and religion. Rowland Robinson (1833 - 1900) was a Quaker farmer and author/artist whose historical fiction often dealt with issues of human impact on this watershed. The first plant-hunting expeditions of another Quaker farmer and noted plant collector, Cyrus Pringle (1838 - 1911), took place in this watershed as well. Dann's account of these three men, whose lives span nearly a century, graphically illustrates contemporary human-nature relationships at the same time that it suggests the limits of science in circumscribing our experience of the physical landscape. The experience of pain and loss is documented along with the stories of success and celebration, since, as Dann writes, "Genuine places, like human hearts, have dark recesses within them, and by examining these recesses within the Lewis Creek watershed, we take a small step toward demythologizing Vermont."

Author : Shannon L. Mariotti
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299233938

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Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal by Shannon L. Mariotti Pdf

Best known for his two-year sojourn at Walden Pond in Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau is often considered a recluse who emerged from solitude only occasionally to take a stand on the issues of his day. In Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal, Shannon L. Mariotti explores Thoreau’s nature writings to offer a new way of understanding the unique politics of the so-called hermit of Walden Pond. Drawing imaginatively from the twentieth-century German social theorist Theodor W. Adorno, she shows how withdrawal from the public sphere can paradoxically be a valuable part of democratic politics. Separated by time, space, and context, Thoreau and Adorno share a common belief that critical inquiry is essential to democracy but threatened by modern society. While walking, huckleberrying, and picking wild apples, Thoreau tries to recover the capacities for independent perception and thought that are blunted by “Main Street,” conventional society, and the rapidly industrializing world that surrounded him. Adorno’s thoughts on particularity and the microscopic gaze he employs to work against the alienated experience of modernity help us better understand the value of Thoreau’s excursions into nature. Reading Thoreau with Adorno, we see how periodic withdrawals from public spaces are not necessarily apolitical or apathetic but can revitalize our capacity for the critical thought that truly defines democracy. In graceful, readable prose, Mariotti reintroduces us to a celebrated American thinker, offers new insights on Adorno, and highlights the striking common ground they share. Their provocative and challenging ideas, she shows, still hold lessons on how we can be responsible citizens in a society that often discourages original, critical analysis of public issues.