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

John Elder
A combination of environmental history, travel writing, literary criticism, and memoir, this book features a pivotal figure who is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded as America's first environmentalist.
eBook, English, 2006
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2006
1 online resource (xv, 282 pages)
9780813934297, 9781283806015, 081393429X, 1283806010
823729261
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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English