Front cover image for Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa : from Vermont to Italy in the footsteps of George Perkins Marsh

Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa : from Vermont to Italy in the footsteps of George Perkins Marsh

George Perkins Marsh was a Vermonter, and his diplomatic career took him for some years to Italy. This book follows in Marsh's footsteps along a trajectory running from Vermont to Italy, and fetches up at the managed forest of Vallombrosa. It takes up issues of sustainability as practiced locally, reports on family doings.
Print Book, English, 2008
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2008
xv, 282 pages ; 24 cm.
9780813925769, 9780813927169, 0813925762, 0813927161
717295740
Marrying the map
Headwaters
Compatriots
Saint Beech
After olive picking
Hunter in the sky
Gifts of prophecy
The broken sheepfold
Mowing
Dust of snow
Inheriting Mount Tom
Forever wild again
Into the wind
Maggie Brook