Download or read book In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Arrowood Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic book of nature photography, this large-format volume is designed to convey the spirit of American nature as so sensitively described by Thoreau. Eliot Porter, one of America's foremost nature photographers, blends short excerpts from Thoreau's Walden and many other works with 72 full-color photographs that perfectly reproduce the writer's sense of quiet drama.