"In the Wilderness is the Preservation of the World" by Porter, Eliot - Selections from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau; Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch - 1967

Ballantine Books, NY, 1967. Soft Cover. Very Good. Photography by Eliot Porter. "In 1962, photographer Eliot Porter and the Sierra Club founder, David Brower, published this bestselling, and now long-out-of-print, classic monograph that has often been referred to as 'the very first coffee table book' ever published. Porter masterfully created and paired his color photographs of the New England woods with passages by writer Henry David Thoreau. Both Porter and Thoreau - although they lived a century apart - constantly worked to preserve Nature and protect it from man-made interference. The finished 'collaboration' arrived in an era when environmental causes were not in the public consciousness... [Pub. Info] Top corner of the front cover is chipped; bottom corner slightly bent. 1st pages bent (1st and 3rd) 2nd page corner torn off.