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Restoring Walden Woods and the Idyll of Thoreau I: From Literary Landscape to Politicized Landscape

Laura Smith
Ecological Restoration, March 2014, 32 (1) 78-85; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.32.1.78
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