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an expert guide through this history. His next three volumes should be equally successful. Clyde A. Milner II clyde a. milner ii is professor of history and director of the heritage studies Ph.D. program at Arkansas State University. Along with his wife, Carol O'Connor, he authored As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart (Oxford University Press, 2009). For eighteen years, 19842002, Milner edited the Western Historical Quarterly. Thoreau the Land Surveyor. By Patrick Chura. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. Pp. 224. Cloth, $34.95.) In this brave and gracefully written book, Patrick Chura does something that most other Thoreau scholars would blanch at attempting; he poses and answers the question, how could Henry David Thoreau, the father of American environmentalism, have been so deeply engaged in land surveying, a trade that led directly to the degradation of the environment in the Concord area? Using Thoreau's journals and field notes, Chura convincingly shows us how Thoreau's thinking about the environment changed over the course of about twenty years and how Thoreau resolved the tensions that he felt between his ideals and the surveying work he did in order to earn a living. Touching as it
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