Diary of a country year (Thoreau Revisited)

At first glance, this book looks as if it matches beautiful nature photos with the words of Henry David Thoreau. Well, that's what it *almost* does. Yes, each double-page spread contains at least one crisp and lovely photo from the natural world. And yes, the chapters follow the seasons and add relevant journal entries to the illustrations. But the journal entries were written by Stephen J. Krasemann, not Thoreau. 42 quotes from Thoreau *do* appear throughout this 160-page volume, and those lines are set in larger print than Krasemann's journal entries. The casual reader may scan through and think the journal entries are also Thoreau's, until he / she reaches the one that mentions automobiles. Thoreau wrote about automobiles? I don't think so. That's when someone may think to look back at the verso of the title page to see the note "Larger type throughout book by Henry David Thoreau." The technique is a bit deceiving, but it goes along with the subtitle of the book, "Thoreau revisited." Readers should also be aware that the images and corresponding text refer to flora and fauna found in Wisconsin, the publication's origin. That's why a thirteen-lined ground squirrel appears. (He's not a native of Thoreau's New England.) Nevertheless, this is one of the better Thoreau quote books from the 1970s, especially because of the all-color professional photographs. A nice gift for a nature lover, and it's available inexpensively from book dealers and individual sellers.

Wisconsin: Outdoor World, 1973 Hard Cover. Beautiful photo-illustrated (full page color photographs) tour through the four seasons With photographs highlighted by the words of Thoreau.