Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau Maps

Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau MapsOn an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreaus path through the Capes outer beaches, from the elbow to Provincetowns fingertip. This is the first of six journeys taken by Shattuck, each one inspired by a walk once taken

2024 and at the Morgan Library & Museum November 22

which plays out in a violently racist America

This interactive journal includes step-by-step tutorials

Using the Morgan’s 10th-century manuscript of Dioscurides’ De materia medica as a centerpiece

These are also accompanied by Petersen’s drawings

“What is the point of living

Salé’s incisive text takes us from medieval scriptoria to the studios of the early twentieth-century modernists

manuscript studies

but was actually a “handing on” of the baton of cultural and intellectual supremacy to a nation expanding in international power and influence

Seventy-five years later

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peaceful moment with a cup of this caffeine free tea