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In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a cabin in the woods at
Walden Pond to record a philosophical experiment in living: to
simplify his life, to support himself entirely by his own labor,
and to draw spiritual sustenance from his surroundings. The result:
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (1854). In 1846, Thoreau
refused to pay a mandated poll tax, refusing to support a
government that protected slavery and had launched an
aggressive war against Mexico. In his essay “Civil
Disobedience,” Thoreau argues that it is the duty of every
citizen to disobey immoral laws—and willingly suffer the legal
consequences for doing so.
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Walden (Paperback)
Henry David Thoreau; Edited by Jedediah Britton-Purdy
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R268
Discovery Miles 2 680
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Walden (1854), Henry David Thoreau's landmark meditation on the
importance of solitude, reflection, and proximity to nature, is
presented in this Norton Library edition alongside three of his
most influential political essays: "Civil Disobedience," "Slavery
in Massachusetts," and "A Plea for Captain John Brown." An
introduction by Jedediah Britton-Purdy reacquaints Thoreau to the
contemporary reader a nuanced account of Thoreau's historical and
intellectual contexts, inviting a new generation to connect with
the transcendentalist's timeless philosophy.
In 1857 Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods
near Walden Pond where he lived as a recluse from society for just
over two years. In his time of self-prescribed isolation, Thoreau
recorded his daily routine and reflections in an effort to get away
from the noise brought about by a mainstream society. His work
became one of the most influential American literary works of all
time. Thoreau's daily journal entries became the foundation for one
of the most well-known works of Transcendental philosophy to this
day. Published as one title, Walden is a quasi-memoir and
naturalist manifesto that has withstood the test of time. The work
continues to inspire generations to switch it up, unplug, and
revert to the higher calling of nature.
Meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics.
Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in
early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most
influential book. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a
series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold
foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful hardbacks make
perfect gifts for book lovers, or wonderful additions to your own
collection. This edition includes a new afterword by Sam Gilpin.
Walden recounts the author's experiences living in a small house in
the woods around Walden Pond near Concord in Massachusetts. Thoreau
constructed the house himself, with the help of a few friends, to
see if he could live 'deliberately' - independently and apart from
society. The result is an intriguing work which blends natural
history with philosophical insights, and includes many illuminating
quotations from other authors. Thoreau's wooden shack has won a
place for itself in the collective American psyche, a remarkable
achievement for a book with such modest and rustic beginnings.
In 1857 Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods
near Walden Pond where he lived as a recluse from society for just
over two years. In his time of self-prescribed isolation, Thoreau
recorded his daily routine and reflections in an effort to get away
from the noise brought about by a mainstream society. His work
became one of the most influential American literary works of all
time. Thoreau's daily journal entries became the foundation for one
of the most well-known works of Transcendental philosophy to this
day. Published as one title, Walden is a quasi-memoir and
naturalist manifesto that has withstood the test of time. The work
continues to inspire generations to switch it up, unplug, and
revert to the higher calling of nature.
Philosopher, naturalist and rugged individualist, Thoreau has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves and to find meaning and beauty in nature. This representative sampling includes five of his most frequently read and cited essays: "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849), "Life without Principle" (1863), "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854), "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1869) and "Walking" (1862). Reprinted from standard editions.
A selection of ruminative nature writing on walking and the
beauty of New England, here Thoreau's characteristically
wide-ranging and philosophical style offers a multitude of
fascinating observations. Excursions presents Thoreau's most
studied and expansive collection of writing on the natural world.
An early advocate of conservationism, he discusses here, in
mesmerising prose, the complex but essential relationship between
man and nature. This edition includes a remarkable Biographical
Sketch by Thoreau's great contemporary and mentor Ralph Waldo
Emerson.
This choice collection of Thoreau's nature writing includes the
essays 'The Succession of Forest Trees', 'Walking', and 'Autumnal
Tints' - each one an explorative reach into the heart of the
natural world. Thoreau's travels through the woods of New England
are not only physical journeys through some of the most
awe-inspiring landscapes in America but also spiritual excursions
of the mind.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. "I went to the woods because I
wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of
life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish
to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to
practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to
live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily
and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a
broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and
reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why
then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its
meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by
experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next
excursion. " - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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The Maine Woods (Paperback)
Henry David Thoreau; Foreword by Richard F Fleck
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R580
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Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David
Thoreau’s experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the
author’s transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to
Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature.
Katahdin is a place “not even scarred by man, but it was a
specimen of what God saw fit to make this world.” In Maine he
comes in contact with “rocks, trees, wind and solid earth” as
though he were witness to the creation itself. Of equal importance,
The Maine Woods depicts Thoreau’s contact with the American
Indians and depicts his tribal education of learning the language,
customs, and mores of the Penobscot people. Thoreau attempts to
learn and speak the Abenaki language and becomes fascinated with
its direct translation of natural phenomena as in the word
sebamook—a river estuary that never loses is water despite
having an outlet because it also has an inlet. The Maine Woods
illustrates the author’s deeper understanding of the complexities
of the primal wilderness of uplifted rocky summits in Maine and
provides the reader with the pungent aroma of balsam firs, black
spruce, mosses, and ferns as only Thoreau could. This new,
redesigned edition features an insightful foreword by Thoreau
scholar Richard Francis Fleck. Redesigned edition featuring an
insightful foreword by Thoreau scholar Richard Francis Fleck. Fleck
is a well-respected authority on Thoreau and the author of many
books including Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians.
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American
author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister,
development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading
transcendentalist. This book was first published in 1864 (composed
partly of articles he had written earlier for periodicals) and
still in print, is an insightful reporter’s picture of a rugged
wilderness the moment before being irrevocably altered by armies of
loggers. Today the virgin forest seen by Thoreau is gone; trees
have been cut, regrown, and harvested again. But modern travelers
— hikers, campers, hunters, fishers, canoeists or back road
wanderers — will still find, as Thoreau did, a land “more grim
and wild than you had anticipated.” It’s also pin-drop
tranquil, teeming with wildlife and, in places, challenging to
reach. (NYTimes) Following Thoreau into the Maine Woods is hardly a
new idea, but it is becoming easier. The Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail was
inaugurated, delineating and celebrating Thoreau’s passage on
routes that Penobscot Indians had used for thousands of years.
(NYTimes) Nature tourism is a $37 billion annual industry in the
United States (Outdoor Industry Association).
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people
of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these
selections from his writings, we see Thoreau the individualist and
opponent of injustice. "Civil Disobedience" (1849), composed
following Thoreau's imprisonment for refusing to pay his taxes in
protest against slavery and the Mexican War, is an eloquent
declaration of the principles that make revolution inevitable in
times of political dishonor. "Solitude," from his masterpiece,
Walden (1854), poetically describes Thoreau's oneness with nature
and the companionship solitude offers to those who want to be rid
of the travails of the world to discover themselves. "Life without
Principle" (posthumously published 1863) decries the way in which
excessive devotion to business and money coarsens the fabric of
society: in merely making a living, the meaning of life gets lost.
"What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." Henry David Thoreau Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. He climbed mountains, paddled a canoe by moonlight, and dined on cedar beer, hemlock tea and moose lips. Taking notes constantly, Thoreau was just as likely to turn his observant eye to the habits and languages of the Abnaki Indians or the arduous life of the logger as he was to the workings of nature. He acutely observed the rivers, lakes, mountains, wolves, moose, and stars in the dark sky. He also told of nights sitting by the campfire, and of meeting men who communicated with each other by writing on the trunks of trees. In The Maine Woods, Thoreau captured a wilder side of America and revealed his own adventurous spirit.
The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados,
and scholars "Replaces all other available editions of Walden as
the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great
American book."-Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture:
Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed This is the authoritative edition of
an American literaru classic: Henry David Thoreau's Walden, an
elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living. With
this edition, Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer has meticulously
corrected errors and omissions from previous editions of Walden
andhere provides illuminating notes on the biographical,
historical, and geographical contexts of the great
nineteenth-century writer and thinker's life. Cramer's newly edited
text is based on the original 1854 edition of Walden, with
emendations taken from Thoreau's draft manuscripts, his own
markings on the page proofs, and notes in his personal copy of the
book. In the editor's notes to the volume, Cramer quotes from
sources Thoreau actually read, showing how he used, interpreted,
and altered these sources. Cramer also glosses Walden with
references to Thoreau's essays, journals, and correspondence. With
the wealth of material in this edition, readers will find an
unprecedented opportunity to immerse themselves in the unique and
fascinating world of Thoreau. Anyone who has read and loved Walden
willwant to own and treasure this gift edition. Those wishing to
read Walden forthe first time will not find a better guide than
Jeffrey S. Cramer.
As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous excerpts
from Thoreau's journal, reprinted by special arrangements with
Princeton University Press from the definitive edition of his
writings. Spanning the years 1845-54, these selections vividly
display Thoreau's intensive exploration of his local landscape; the
fusion of literary and natural history field work that informs
Walden, "Walking," and "Wild Apples"; and the growth of his
environmental imagination. "Reviews and Posthumous Assessments" for
this edition collects eight new reviews of Thoreau's antislavery
and late environmental essays as well as of Walden. To the
influential portraits of Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson and James
Russell Lowell, the Third Edition adds John Burroughs's "Another
Word on Thoreau," his response to them and to his great
predecessor. "Recent Criticism" includes eighteen selections of the
best historical, political, philosophical, poststructuralist, and
environmental criticism of Thoreau's writing since the
mid-twentieth century. To classic pieces by E. B. White, Leo Marx,
Barbara Johnson, and Stanley Cavell, the Third Edition adds essays
by nine new contributors, among them Laurence Buell, Laura Dassow
Walls, Evan Carton, Robert A. Gross, Albert J. von Frank, Steven
Fink, and William Rossi. A Chronology of Thoreau's life and work,
new to the Third Edition, and an expanded and updated Selected
Bibliography are also included.
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