Kammen, Michael. A Time to Every Purpose, The Four Seasons in American Culture. University of North Carolina Press, 1st Edition, 2004. 336 pp. Hardbound.
In this excellent book, Kammen traces the motif of Four Seasons in American popular culture and fine arts from the seventeenth century to the present. Includes numerous references to and by Thoreau.

Michael Kammen delivered the 2005 Dana Brigham Memorial Keynote Address at the Thoreau Society's Annual Gathering in Concord, Mass.

Crowe's Thoreau-esque 4 year residence in a cabin on the edge of Zoro's field gives birth to one of the finest books of this genre to come along in years.

 

Winner of the 2005 Ragan Old North State Award cup for Nonfiction.

Winner of the Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award fro Outsatnding Writing on the Southern Environment.

Honorable Mention, 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Shop at Walden Pond Staff recommended book.

 

"A Walden for today, paced to nature's rhythm's and cycles and filled with a wisdom one gains only through the pursuit of a consciously simple, spiritual, environmentally responsible life." Blue Ridge Outdoors

 

In this, her third book about her family farm in Dracut, MA, Jane looks at the "larger consideration of the meaning of cleared land and its relationship to other iconic locations in American landscape: wilderness, prarie, mountain, city." She continues to write prose that reads as poetry.

Winner of Best Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Monteray County Herald.

Winner of the New England Book Award for Non-Fiction.

 

Ms. Brox is a member of the Thoreau Society and currently lives in Maine.

One of the latest in the Thoreau Society's Spirit of Thoreau Series produced in association with the University of Massachusetts Press. The brief, handsomly presented books in this series offer the thoughts of a great writer on a variety of topics, some that we readily associate with him, some that may be surprising. Each volume includes original engravings by renowned illustrator and book artist Barry Moser.

 

One of the latest in the Thoreau Society's Spirit of Thoreau Series produced in association with the University of Massachusetts Press. The brief, handsomly presented books in this series offer the thoughts of a great writer on a variety of topics, some that we readily associate with him, some that may be surprising. Each volume includes original engravings by renowned illustrator and book artist Barry Moser.