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James Schlett - A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers´ Camp in the Adirondacks - 9781501704451 - V9781501704451
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A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers´ Camp in the Adirondacks

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Description for A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers´ Camp in the Adirondacks Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 colour plates, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.

In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping expedition for some of America's preeminent intellectuals to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks. Dubbed the "Philosophers’ Camp," the trip included the Swiss American scientist and Harvard College professor Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, the Republican lawyer and future U.S. attorney general Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, the Cambridge poet James Russell Lowell, and the transcendental philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, who would later pen a poem about the experience. News that these cultured men were living like "Sacs and Sioux" in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501704451
SKU
V9781501704451
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About James Schlett
James Schlett is an award-winning journalist whose feature and business writing has been recognized by the New York Newspaper Publishers Association and the New York State Associated Press Association. He lives in Rotterdam, N.Y.

Reviews for A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers´ Camp in the Adirondacks
Other scholars have paid glancing notice at this event but have confused its details or missed its importance. The most thorough scholarly account remains Paul Jamieson's "Emerson in the Adirondacks," published in New York History over a half-century ago and largely overlooked ever since.Until now.... Focusing primarily on the Follensby Pond expedition, Schlett uses it to develop a series of ... Read more

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