Item #154650 A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks. James Schlett.
A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks
A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks
A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks
A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks

A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks

Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015. Hardcover. Dark turquoise stamped paper boards, gilt letters on spine, color illus. dust jacket, 256 pp., 20 BW illus., 12 color plates. VG. Item #154650
ISBN: 9780801453526

"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 'Philosphers' Camp,' the trip included the Swiss 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 philospher Ralph Waldo Emerson, who would later pen a poem about the experience. ... [This book] recounts the story of the Philosophers' Camp, from the lives and careers of -- and friendships and frictions among -- the participants to the extensive preparations for the expedition and the several-day encampment to its lasting legacy." (dj) Also explores what changes Stillman saw when he returned to the site in 1884, and what preservation efforts have been undertaken in more recent years. An interesting microcosm with wider historical and environmental relevance.

Price: $35.00

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