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Essays by Henry David Thoreau
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This new selection of Thoreau's essays traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day - the periodical press, newspapers, and compendiums - and as a frequent presenter on the local lecture circuit. By arranging the writings chronologically, the volume recreates the experience of Thoreau's ...Show more
Nature Walking by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry Thoreau; John C. Elder (Introduction by)
$23.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
The Illustrated Walden: Or, Life in the Woods by THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics
A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on man and nature."Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two years, he lived there as simply as possible, le ...Show more
The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition by Henry Thoreau
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Category: Classics
To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth and TarcherPerigee's publication of Expect Great Things: The Life of Henry David Thoreau, here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the first illustrated volume of Thoreau's classic, as originally issued in 1897. In 1897, thirty-five years after ...Show more
The Portable Thoreau by Henry Thoreau
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Category: Classics
Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his ...Show more
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of thi ...Show more
Walden by Henry Thoreau; Terry Tempest Williams (Foreword by)
$21.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American ...Show more
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Walden is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.First publi ...Show more
Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: American Library
Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for sp ...Show more
Walden: Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: Wilderness Bks.
A beloved classic reissued for contemporary readers. Experience a year in the life of Thoreau at Walden Pond in this classic work. Visit the bean-field, the village, and the ponds; learn about our brute neighbors, the higher laws of nature and humankind, and the benefits of reading and solitude. Henry ...Show more
Walden: Penguin Pocket Classics by Henry Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
"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." Inspiring, brilliantly written, cantankerous and funny - Walden is both a very specific ...Show more
Walden (Yale University Edition) by Henry D. Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: Nota Bene Ser.
This handsome, affordable paperback edition of Walden is the most authoritative version of Thoreau