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Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods

by Richard B. Primack

Univ. of Chicago. 2014. 264p. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780226682686. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780226062211.

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Using Henry David Thoreau's classic Walden; or, Life in the Woods as his source for environmental data from the mid-19th century, Primack details how climate change has affected Massachusetts's Walden Pond and its environs in just 160 years. (LJ 3/15/14)

Reviewed by John Burch , Jun 01, 2015

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