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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition, 6th Printing. BRAND NEW Copy. Map to endpapers. Frontispiece: Henry David Thoreau. Anthology of 65 essays written as contributions to the Walden Woods Project, a national non-profit organization founded by recording artist Don Henley, 1990. Thoreau wrote, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately .", that when he comes to die, he would not "discover that I had not lived." Inspiration to countless, it has come to pass that surround lands to Walden Pond, to where Thoreau withdrew for solitude, is near half privately owned and open to development. Royalties and portions of books sales go to supporting preservation; a formidable list of authors/supporters of political or artistic promimence.

8vo, 377pp, black and white illustrations. A very good hardback copy.

Black and white photographic plates, x + 195pp, appendix, index, inscribed to Professor Anthony Reid by the author, very good hardback copy. "This title covers topics that range from the inscriptions of ninth-century Java to the first global financial crisis in 1930, and from Islamic laws against the charging of interest to the role of Chinese temples and Dutch church charities as credit providers. Attention is paid to parallels and contrasts with more recent developments, including the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and Indonesia's rise to fame as a pioneer of the current global microfinance revolution." (Publisher's description).