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21. Journal of Henry David Thoreau
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22. Henry David Thoreau : Collected
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23. Henry David Thoreau and the Moral
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24. Henry David's House
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25. Walden (Concord Library)
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26. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau:
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27. New Suns Will Arise : From the
$79.50
28. Journal, Volume 5
 
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29. Henry David Thoreau: In Step with
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30. H. D. Thoreau: A Writer's Journal
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31. The Cambridge Companion to Henry
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32. Walden, or, Life in the Woods
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33. Henry David Thoreau: Cycles and
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34. Thoreau: A Book of Quotations
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35. Into the Deep Forest: With Henry
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36. Daily Observations: Thoreau On
 
37. The Works of Henry David Thoreau:
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38. Seeing New Worlds: Henry David
 
39. The New Thoreau Handbook (The
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40. Material Faith: Thoreau on Science

21. Journal of Henry David Thoreau 1837-1861
by Henry David Thoreau
 Paperback: 14 Pages (1984-11)
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22. Henry David Thoreau : Collected Essays and Poems (Library of America)
by Henry David Thoreau
Hardcover: 703 Pages (2001-04-23)
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Asin: 1883011957
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America's greatest nature writer and a political thinker of worldwide impact, Henry David Thoreau's remarkable essays reflect his speculative and probing cast of mind. In his poems, he gave voice to his private sentiments and spiritual aspirations in the plain style of New England speech. Now, The Library of America brings together these indispensable works in one authoritative volume.

Spanning his entire career, the 27 essays gathered here vary in style from the ambling rhythm of "Natural History of Massachusetts" and "A Winter Walk"to the concentrated moral outrage of "Slavery in Massachusetts" and "A Plea for Captain John Brown." Included are "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau's great exploration of the conflict between individual conscience and state power that continues to influence political thinkers and activists; "Walking," a meditation on wildness and civilization; and "Life Without Principle,"a passionate critique of American materialism and conformity. Also here are literary essays, including pieces on Homer, Chaucer, and Carlyle; the travel essay "A Yankee in Canada"; the three speeches in defense of John Brown; and essays such as "Autumnal Tints," "Wild Fruits," and "Huckleberries" that explore natural phenomena around Concord.

Seven poems are published here for the first time, and others are presented in new, previously unpublished versions based on Thoreau's manuscripts. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars A treasure.
Henry David Thoreau, born in Concord, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1817, was one of the co-founders and most influential representatives of the philosophical school known as "Transcendentalism."(Others include fellow Concord residents Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bronson Alcott, reformist teacher and father of Louisa May Alcott.)Thoreau's life centered around his home town; yet, as his writings reflect, he was very familiar with all major philosophical schools of his time, not only those developing in America but also the writings of Kant, Goethe, Schiller and Hegel - indeed, the very term "transcendentalist" derives, as Emerson explained, from Kant, who had first recognized intuitive thought as a kind of thought in its own right, holding "that there was a very important class of ideas ... which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired ... [and which] were intuitions of the mind itself."These were the ideas which Kant had called "transcendental forms."(Or, as Thoreau himself once put it in his Journal:"I should have told them at once that I was a transcendentalist. That would have been the shortest way of telling them that they would not understand my explanations.")

To this day, transcendentalist philosophy, and Thoreau's work in particular, has proven enormously influential - on the program of the British Labour Party as much as on people as diverse as spiritual leaders Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. on the one hand and rock star Don Henley on the other hand.Henley in the 1990s even went so far as to found the Walden Woods Project, teaming up with the Thoreau Society to preserve as much as possible of Walden Woods and the land around Concord, and foster education about Thoreau.Yet, during his life time only few of his many works, now considered so influential, were published, and even those did not find wide distribution."I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself," he commented on the poor sales of his "Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers."

This collection, one of two Library of America volumes dedicated to Thoreau's works and edited by renowned Thoreau scholar Elizabeth Hall Witherell, presents the majority of his essays and poems, from well-known works such as "Civil Disobedience," "Life Without Principle" and "Walking" to a large body of lesser known (but just as quotable!) writings and loving observations of nature ("Autumnal Tints," "Wild Apples," "Huckleberries").A companion volume, edited by Robert F. Sayre, contains Thoreau's four longest publications ("A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," "The Maine Woods," "Cape Cod" and, of course, "Walden") - thus omitting from the Library of America series only his extensive journals and the posthumously published "Faith in a Seed," a collection of four manuscripts left partially unfinished at Thoreau's death in 1862 and published for the first time in the late 1990s, to much fanfare among Thoreauvians the world over.

Introspective to a fault, the man who once built a cabin on Walden Pond and for over two years lived the life of a hermit, was also a keen observer; of nature as much as of the world surrounding him.The shallowness and greed he saw in so-called "civil" society filled him with skepticism ("intellectual and moral suicide," he scoffed in "Life Without Principle") - and with the tireless need to encourage free thinking and personal independence."I wish to speak a word for Nature," he thus opened his essay on "Walking," and explained that he sought to make a point in favor of "absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society."And he went on to mourn the fact that few people were truly able to walk and travel freely, to leave behind the social bounds that tied them down, and to open up to nature's beauty.This, of course, echoed his famous statements in "Walden" that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation;" that however, as he had learned by his "experiment" on Walden Pond, "if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."And this was the same spirit who, staunchly opposed to both slavery and to the Mexican War, would rather spend a night in jail than pay his taxes, and who summed up his posture in "Civil Disobedience" by saying that "I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right" - a statement echoed roughly a hundred years later when Mahatma Gandhi told an English court that he believed that "non-cooperation with evil is a duty and British rule of India is evil," and also resonating through the publications of many an American civil rights leader, first and foremost Martin Luther King Jr.

While I had read much of Thoreau's work already before I discovered the Library of America collections, I am extremely pleased to see the majority of his body of work reunited in two volumes in this dignified series.For one thing, while there are innumerable compilations containing "Walden" and some of his other better-known works, it is still difficult to get a hold of Thoreau's lesser known essays and poems.Moreover, though, and more importantly, reading his works in the context provided by this collection makes for much greater insight into the man's personality, and his philosophy as a whole.While a biography certainly adds perspective, nothing surpasses the experience of reading Thoreau's works in context - and in the context of the works of other Transcendentalists, first and foremost Emerson.This is a true literary treasure: to behold, cherish and read again and again.

5-0 out of 5 stars ...could be worth it
This is a very fine collection of Essays and Poems but a bit pricey.I have to think that Thoreau would not have approved.Go to the library and paw through some of the essays
to see if you want the ones that you cannot get through another
collection.Frequently "Walking" or "Civil Disobedience" or
"Life Without Principle" are added to small volumes of Walden.
I, of course, shelled out the cash and bought it, but I
sometimes have second thoughts.The paper is quite thin and
I have doubts about it's durablity.If you intend to read this
work several times while underlining and making notes, I would look aroung before buying this specific volume.If you merely want a presentable copy to sit on the shelves and only occasionally consulted, but otherwise dormant-than this is for you.
As a side note, Thoreau demonstrates that some mediums are
better for others.Although a master prose essay writer( I see
"Walden" a a collection of discrete, connected essays) his
poetry isn't so great.This is not uncommon, although a great
prose-poet, Nietzsche's straight poetry is very weak.
Essentially, the material inside this volume is worth your
money.This volume itself may not satisfy your needs though.
Go to a university library, read through the essays, and decide
how important ownership is for you.Thoreau would have approved
of such an investigation.

5-0 out of 5 stars An American Original
....When beginning to read this anthology, I was already familiar with most of his essays but had had only limited exposure to his poems which comprise about a third of this volume’s contents. Thoreau was a man of great intellectual courage while possessing at the same time an uncommon sensitivity to the natural world in which he seemed to be most comfortable. Within the context of American society during the mid-19th century, it is interesting to observe his development of concepts such as civil disobedience which later had such a profound influence on the thinking of public leaders such as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. I have always admired the rigor of Thoreau’s intellect which is evident in abundance throughout his published works. While proceeding through this single volume in which most of his essays and his poems are arranged in sequence, I developed a much greater appreciation of (for lack of a better term) his “humanity.” Those who desire a wider and deeper context for consideration of these works are urged to read Walter Harding's The Days of Henry Thoreau as well as Robert D. Richardson’s two biographies, Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind and Emerson: The Mind on Fire. ... Read more


23. Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing
by Alfred I. Tauber
Hardcover: 119 Pages (2003-01-06)
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In his graceful philosophical account, Alfred I. Tauber shows why Thoreau still seems so relevant today--more relevant in many respects than he seemed to his contemporaries. Although Thoreau has been skillfully and thoroughly examined as a writer, naturalist, mystic, historian, social thinker, Transcendentalist, and lifelong student, we may find in Tauber's portrait of Thoreau the moralist a characterization that binds all these aspects of his career together.
Thoreau was caught at a critical turn in the history of science, between the ebb of Romanticism and the rising tide of positivism. He responded to the challenges posed by the new ideal of objectivity not by rejecting the scientific worldview, but by humanizing it for himself. Tauber portrays Thoreau as a man whose moral vision guided his life's work. Each of Thoreau's projects reflected a self-proclaimed "metaphysical ethics," an articulated program of self-discovery and self-knowing. By writing, by combining precision with poetry in his naturalistpursuits and simplicity with mystical fervor in his daily activity, Thoreau sought to live a life of virtue--one he would characterize as marked by deliberate choice. This unique vision of human agency and responsibility will still seem fresh and contemporary to readers at the start of the twenty-first century. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Thoreau's Response to Post- Modernism
This is a book for two kinds of readers. Those who are particularly drawn to Thoreau will find a provocative thesis on which to hang all of his various pursuits. Tauber approaches him as a historian and philosopher of science, and shows how Thoreau was reacting against a rising tide of positivism - a form of radical objectivity -- to preserve his individualistic perspective on the world. Whether he was doing natural history or cultural history, Thoreau collected facts and assembled them to uniquely construct his own view of nature or culture. But Thoreau is only a foil for Tauber's larger purposes. Tauber's major theme is that all knowledge is value-laden and we choose the values by which to know the world and live in it. The fact/value distinction, so important in much of philosophy of science, is brought together here. This thesis is of interest, not only to understand Thoreau, but for a very much wider set of concerns. Tauber is charting out a post-critical understanding of the nature of knowledge, building on two philosophies: Michael Polanyi's "tacit mode" of understanding and Emanuel Levinas's ethical metaphysics. The first argues that the conditions that make knowing possible are not "foundational" or can ever be made explicit, but rather are embedded in individual experience and common social life; from this source, explicit knowledge is created. The second thesis maintains that values determine how we encounter the world and ultimately know it. These themes are not novel to contemporary philosophy, but when posed in present debates about the nature of reality, the claims of relativism, and the problematic status of the self, Tauber's synthesis offers a way out of the maze of postmodernism to new assertions about the primacy of the person. Thoreau is used to demonstrate how the postmodern challenge has its origins in the romanticism and that the responses offered then, when understood in the light of 20th century developments, takes on new significance. This is an ambitious book: The Thoreau lover will find some of the philosophy challenging and the philosophically inclined will find the focus on Thoreau potentially distracting. But each will find their efforts well paid: the first will understand Thoreau in a new way, and the second will see a philosophy enacted in a rarely realized illustration. ... Read more


24. Henry David's House
by Henry David Thoreau
Paperback: 32 Pages (2007-02)
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5-0 out of 5 stars The beauty, power and subtlety of solitary living
Illustrated by Peter Fiore and edited by Steven Schnur, Henry David's House introduces young readers ages 5 to 9 to the life, thought and writings of Henry David Thoreau. Text and illustration collaborate to showcase the beauty, power and subtlety of solitary living withing the context of a nature-oriented retreat as represented by Thoreau's tiny house in the woods and on the shore of Walden Pond. Henry David's House is an enthusiastically recommended addition to school and community picturebook collections.

5-0 out of 5 stars Living the Simple Life.....
"Near the end of March I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by Walden Pond and began to cut down some tall white pines for timber..."Author, Steven Schnur has chosen several wonderfully engaging passages from Henry David Thoreau's Walden, in this elegant picture book, and young readers will really get a vivid sense of the hard, yet rewarding work of building his house, the few possessions needed to live comfortably, the beauty of the changing seasons, and living the simple life in harmony with nature."Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time."Peter Fiore's lush and exquisite watercolor illustrations bring the splendor of Thoreau's existence at Walden Pond to life on the page, and together word and art evoke feelings of peace, quiet, and contentment.Perfect for readers 8-12, this book works well as a real aloud with D.B. Johnson's Henry Builds a Cabin, for younger children.With an editor's note at the end to fill in further biographical details about Thoreau and his time at Walden, Henry David's House is an evocative treasure to read, share, and most of all discuss."We can never have enough of Nature."

5-0 out of 5 stars A great introduction to Thoreau for young readers.
Henry David's House is a picturebook adaptation by Steven Schnur of a part of Henry David Thoreau's classic nature book "Walden", told with only a limited amount of editing. Beautiful, slightly abstract yet full-color illustrations by Peter Fiore bring this classic thinker's words to vibrant life for young readers. Henry David's House is a superb introduction to a literary masterpiece for young readers, and its final message, "We can never have enough of Nature," reverberates in the hearts of all ages. Highly recommended for family, school, and community library picturebook collections.

4-0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous illustrations set to Thoreau's words
Henry David Thoreau describes his cabin, how he built it, and a little bit of his life in it, in these selected excerpts from _Walden_. Peter Fiore's exquisite paintings provide vibrant accompaniment to each quotation. The result is a beautiful "picture book" any Thoreau fan would be proud to own.

I'm not sure that its target audience should be very young children. If kids pull this one off the shelf, the meaning of the words will be lost on them, and the artwork that goes along with the text won't build the story on its own. Though full of the Walden spirit, this book isn't as engaging to the youngest readers as D. B. Johnson's similar _Henry Builds a Cabin_ or _Henry Hikes to Fitchburg_. Perhaps its best use would be as a multigenerational preface to Thoreau's work, with teacher-student or parent-child combinations reading the book together. _Henry David's House_ could introduce middle school and high school students to the literary and scientific portions of _Walden_ and could serve as a first step in their acquaintance with the author. Teens and pre-teens may balk at being read to, but they're also visual learners who are at an age to appreciate the presentation here. And if it inspires them to pick up Thoreau's classic to read for themselves, so much the better. ... Read more


25. Walden (Concord Library)
by Henry David Thoreau
Paperback: 312 Pages (2004-07-15)
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On the 150th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of the nature classicFirst published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau's groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and spiritual seer, this beautiful edition of Walden for the new millennium is more accessible and relevant than ever."[Thoreau] says so many pithy and brilliant things, and offers so many piquant, and, we may add, so many just, comments on society as it is, that this book is well worth the reading, both for its actual contents and its suggestive capacity." -A. P. Peabody, North American Review, 1854"[Walden] still seems to me the best youth's companion yet written by an American, for it carries a solemn warning against the loss of one's valuables, it advances a good argument for traveling light and trying new adventures, it rings with the power of powerful adoration, it contains religious feeling without religious images, and it steadfastly refuses to record bad news." -E. B. White, Yale Review, 1954"Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau's Walden as the gospel of the present moment." -Robert D. Richardson, Jr., author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind ... Read more


26. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 8: 1854. (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
by Henry David Thoreau
Hardcover: 507 Pages (2002-05-06)
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From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of his interior life and of his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts. Unlike earlier editions, the Princeton edition reproduces the Journal in its original and complete form, in a reading text free of editorial interpolations but keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus.

Journal 8: 1854 is edited from the 467-page notebook that Thoreau kept February 13-September 3, 1854. It reveals him as an increasingly confident taxonomist creating lists that distill his observations about plant leafing and seasonal birds. Two particularly significant public events took place in his life in the summer of 1854. On July 4, at an antislavery rally at Framingham, Massachusetts, Thoreau appeared for the first time in the company of prominent abolitionists, delivering as heated a statement against slavery as he had yet made. And on August 9, Ticknor and Fields published Walden, the book Thoreau had been working on since 1846. In Journal 8 Thoreau indicates that these public accomplishments, though satisfying, took a toll on his creative life and did not fully compensate him for the hours spent away from the woods.

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27. New Suns Will Arise : From the Journals of Henry David Thoreau
by Henry David Thoreau, Frank Crocitto
Hardcover: 80 Pages (2000-12-01)
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Asin: 0786805390
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One of America's best-loved writers is paired with photography of a wholly unique artist.

Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment...

The essays of Henry David Thoreau resonate with a love for life, nature, and simplicity. But his concern for the natural world and passion for living life to its fullest are perhaps best illustrated in his rarely read journals. Encompassing the whole of his writing career, these journals convey a startling insight, zest for life, and admiration for the power of the individual.

This breathtaking book combines selected journal entries -many never before published - with the poignant, ethereal photography of internationally renowned photographer John Dugdale. Developed using an early photographic process, these unique cyanotypes echo the beauty of a time forgotten and the strength and spirit of one of America's best-loved writers. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Great quotes and pictures
I would recommend this for some one looking to explore some of Thoreau without tripping over some of his verboeness.He has great pearls of wisdom for which you must hunt in his full works.Mind you that is worth it.However, this books has many all in one to view quickly.Also a great book to get the meditative juices flowing.

5-0 out of 5 stars SIGHT BEYOND THE PHYSICAL
It is obvious that the present day photographer, John Dugdale, has been greatly influenced by the 19th century Transcendentalist writer, Henry David Thoreau.In this superb book of Dugdale's photographs and selections from Thoreau's journals, it is as if the writings were done specifically for the images, not over 100 years previously.

Dugdale has, for many years, been one of my favorite photographers.He uses a process for printing his photographs called cyanotype which was invented during the time that Thoreau lived and worked.The wonderful elegance and simplicity of his subjects and images fits perfectly with Thoreau's philosophies of life.Dugdale, because of HIV, is 80% blind, but, somehow, uses what sight he has combined with a pure spirituality and sight beyond the physical to create images of rare beauty.

So, we see a single rose alongside these words of Thoreau:"Love is the burden of all Nature's odes..."A still-life of flowers, two birds, which may be made of milk glass, and a human hand are viewed with Thoreau's "Perhaps what most moves us in winter is some reminiscence of far-off summer...;" a solitary man with one hand against an old, tall tree by a pond and a field are perfect for Thoreau's "Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each..."And perhaps most moving of all, part of the back of a nude man is used with Thoreau's "My life was ecstasy.In youth, before I lost any of my senses, I can remember that I was all alive, and inhabited my body with inexpressible satisfaction..."

The book begins with two short, wonderfully written appreciations of the artists by Frank Crocitto.

This collection is magnificent beyond any contemporary words.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. ... Read more


28. Journal, Volume 5
by Henry David Thoreau
Hardcover: 616 Pages (1997-07-07)
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Asin: 0691065365
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From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of both his interior life and his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts. In contrast to earlier editions, the Princeton Edition reproduces the Journal in its original and complete form, in a reading text that is free of editorial interpolations but keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus.

Covering an annual cycle from spring 1852 to late winter 1853, Journal 5 finds Thoreau intensely concentrating on detailed observations of natural phenomena and on "the mysterious relation between myself & these things" that he always strove to understand. Increasingly, the Journal attempts to balance a new found scientific professionalism and the accurate recording of phenological data with a firmly rooted belief in the spiritual correspondences that Nature reveals. Fittingly, the year of observation ends with Thoreau pondering an invitation to join the Association for the Advancement of Science, an invitation he ultimately declined in order to pursue his own life studies.

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5-0 out of 5 stars A day by day look at Thoreau
"Oct. 22nd, 1837. 'What are you doing now?' he asked, 'Do you keep a journal?'-- So I make my first entry today." Thus begins Thoreau's Journal, made up of more then two million words and covering about twenty-five years of his life.No other work of Thoreau's better exhibits his discipline as a writer and his devotion to the natural world.In the Journal can be found the fragmented foundations ofmasterpieces such as Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, and Cape Cod.But what is perhaps more interesting to a reader of Thoreau's Journal are his thoughts and insights on topics such as friendship, love, religion, nature, bravery, heroism, war, slavery, the art of writing, and, most important to Thoreau, the art of living.Anyone with any interest in Thoreau will find his Journal to be an invaluable aid in understanding and following the life of one of America's most profound prose writers ... Read more


29. Henry David Thoreau: In Step with Nature
by Elizabeth Ring
 Library Binding: 48 Pages (1993-03-01)
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3-0 out of 5 stars A fair introduction to HDT
As part of the Gateway Biography series issued by Millbrook Press in the early 1990s, this book provides a fairly decent overall view of Henry David Thoreau's life, philosophies, and writings. Young students will learn much more here than they'll find in an encyclopedia entry, and the text is written in an easy reading style. Much emphasis focuses on the love of the natural world, which is perfect for a book on this topic. The concept of transcendentalism is even approached: "By being close to nature, we can get a hint of the spirit that *transcends* (is above) material things. All we have to do is get away from useless, routine activities, go outdoors, and listen to nature as it speaks to us." Some scholarly descriptions don't make as much sense as those two sentences do.

However, readers should be warned that some details here are not quite accurate. For example, you cannot see the foundation stones of Henry's Walden Pond hut, as the author states. Granite markers outline its original perimeter, but they were installed in the 20th century. The most blatant error occurs on pages 12 and 13, where a photo of the North Bridge appears. The text claims that Henry and his brother John often walked across that bridge. Wrong! When they were alive, no bridge spanned the river at that site. The one the Minutemen used in 1775 was gone and had not yet been replaced. The current wooden bridge wasn't built until the 20th century. The Concord of today is not a carbon copy of the Concord of the mid-1800s.

Yet the basic information presented here is good. School libraries will want more options than just this one on their biography shelves. Families should supplement this book with others on the market to give children an accurate portrayal of our first American environmentalist. ... Read more


30. H. D. Thoreau: A Writer's Journal
by Henry David Thoreau
Paperback: 234 Pages (1960-06)
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5-0 out of 5 stars The best of Thoreau's journal
Because Henry David Thoreau's work is in the public domain, it's easy to run across any number of compilations of his most profound or most quotable words.Perhaps these mini-anthologies are simpler to digest than, say, every single page of _Walden_, or every one of the 14 volumes of his _Journal_. Let's face it:most people don't get or take the chance to read either one.So it's nice that Laurence Stapleton took the time to read the _Journal_ and select crucial parts for us to study.Here Thoreau is at his best in describing his neighbors or his walks around Concord and his art of observing Nature.His recordings are mostly made under what most people would consider adverse conditions:in fog, in rain, in snow, or at night.He notices phenomena reflected only in the water of a pond or the ice-covering of a wintry field.He is a practiced "seer," and his writing inspires the reader to see as well.

His writing.Of course!This book is subtitled _A Writer's Journal_ for good reason.Stapleton specifically picked out many entries where Thoreau ruminates about his own writing and the creative process.To this end, this book reads like a 19th-century _Chicken Soul for the Writer's Soul_.Anyone who writes can identify with considerations like these:

"The best you can write will be the best you are.Every sentence is the result of a long probation.The author's character is read from title-page to end.Of this he never corrects the proofs."(Feb. 28, 1841)

"We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.The body, the senses, must conspire with the mind.Expression is the act of the whole man, that our speech may be vascular.The intellect is powerless to express thought without the aid of the heart and the liver and of every member."(Sept. 2, 1851)

"Write often, write upon a thousand themes, rather than long at a time, not trying to turn too many feeble somersaults in the air,--and so come down upon your head at last." (Nov. 12, 1851)

"I wish that I could buy at the shops some kind of india-rubber that would rub out at once all that in my writing which it now costs me so many perusals, so many months if not years, and so much reluctance, to erase."(Dec. 27, 1853)

"Time never passes so quickly and unaccountably as when I am engaged in composition, i.e. in writing down my thoughts.Clocks seem to have been put forward."(Jan. 27, 1858)

"The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write.Thought breeds thought.It grows under your hands."(Feb. 13, 1860)

(Is he speaking to *us* or to *himself*?) We also see publication notes of the two books released during Thoreau's lifetime, _A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers_ and _Walden_.We read discourses and ramblings that will later become essays like "Slavery in Massachusetts" and "A Plea for Captain John Brown."The latter are served without any intrusion from the editor, so the savvy reader might need to brush up on pre-Civil War history to put the words into context.Thoreau's discussions about putting pen to paper make the audience feel almost guilty for spending time reading, not writing.A volume that can be appreciated by nature-lovers, contemporary transcendentalists and writers alike. ... Read more


31. The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Paperback: 248 Pages (1995-06-30)
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Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings such as "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," on the monumental Walden, or on Thoreau's assorted journals and later books.It also serves in some ways as a biographical guide, offering new insights into his turbulent publishing career, and his brief but extraordinarily original life. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars A valuable guide to Thoreau's work...
This guide to Thoreau's work is a collection of thirteen essays by academic experts.Its topics include the evolution of Thoreau's reputation, the impact of Concord on his life and views, and the effects of his friendship with Emerson.Other essays discuss each of Thoreau's major works, placing them in the context of his life, his times, and his beliefs.Ronald Hoag's comments on Thoreau's natural history writings (whose topics include such seemingly unpoetic subjects as the dispersion of seeds) are especially helpful.They tie these seemingly disconnected "scientific works" to Thoreau's other writings by illuminating the philosophical threads that unite them.Best of all, most of the essays in this book are superbly written, in contrast to so many academic productions.They are clear, balanced, sensible, straightforward, well informed, and highly illuminating.My understanding and appreciation of Thoreau's work has been greatly enhanced by this remarkable book, which I strongly recommend.If you like Thoreau, you can buy this book with the assurance that it will enhance -- not disrupt -- your enjoyment. ... Read more


32. Walden, or, Life in the Woods
by Henry David Thoreau
Hardcover: 522 Pages (2007-05-31)
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33. Henry David Thoreau: Cycles and Psyche
by MD, Michael Sperber
Paperback: 149 Pages (2004-09-01)
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This study of Thoreau's often-discussed cycles of spiritual elevation and depression relies on an examination of the writer's published works, journal entries, correspondence, and sketches. The writer's journals show that Thoreau was aware of his "insanity and sanity" and used wilderness retreats, such as his famed two-year retreat to Walden Pond, to treat and heal himself. Thoreau's natural strategies for managing stress disorders and chronic depression including journal writing and forms of meditation provide an attractive alternative to prescription medication and show how one of America's most influential writers dealt with severe intellectual, social, and moral stress.
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5-0 out of 5 stars An in-depth psychological case study
Henry David Thoreau: Cycles and Psyche is a deep exploration of classic author Henry David Thoreau's self-declared "Insanity." Writen by expert psychiatric consultant Michael Sperber, Cycles and Psyche uses Icarian and Daedalian imagery in its search to identify masked affective disorders in the great writer. An in-depth psychological case study meant for intermediate to advanced psychology and literature students, Henry David Thoreau: Cycles and Psyche is unafraid to picture and scrutinize a side of the great Thoreau that not everyone dares to examine closely.
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34. Thoreau: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Henry David Thoreau
Paperback: 64 Pages (2000-12-20)
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In more than 600 striking, thought-provoking excerpts, grouped under 17 headings, Thoreau rails against injustice, gives voice to his love of nature, and advocates simplicity and conscious living. Note.
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35. Into the Deep Forest: With Henry David Thoreau
by Jim Murphy
Hardcover: 39 Pages (1995-03-27)
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), author of Walden, was one of the great American writers, philosophers, and naturalists of the 19th century. In this lovely gift book, Jim Murphy and illustrator Kate Kiesler create an enchanting tribute to a man who would have appreciated its simplicity. Thoreau made three trips into the wilderness of Maine, writing extensive journal entries and long articles about each trek. Most of the text of this book, only slightly revised by Murphy, stems from his third jaunt in 1857.The account begins as Thoreau and his two companions, Edward Hoar and their Native American guide Joe Polis, embark one misty September morning in a birch-bark canoe on Maine's Moosehead Lake. Escaping from Concord, Massachusetts, Thoreau welcomes the wilderness: "We live thick and are in each other's way, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.... [But then] I leave the towns behind, and life becomes gradually more tolerable, if not even glorious." Glorious, indeed. As the reader follows the travelers, they hear the call of the kingfisher, see the lake trout break the surface of the water, paddle into the Penobscot River, spy moose, and get lost in a swamp. It's an unsuspenseful journey, but a calming, evocative one. Kiesler's moody oil paintings beautifully capture the quiet wonders of nature, while her subtle pencil drawings of birds, plants, and explorer essentials decorate the right-hand pages. For those who aren't familiar with Thoreau, a brief biography begins this book--a fine, elegant addition to the collection of any Thoreau fan, young or old. --Karin SnelsonBook Description
Between 1846 and 1852 Henry David Thoreau, along with a friend and a guide, set off on four separate canoe and hiking trips into the deep forest of Maine. His goal was to reach the peak of Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England. Thoreau, a noted natural biologist, recorded every sight, sound, and smell of the untouched wilderness that he fondly referred to as "all mossy and moosey." Using Thoreau's words as much as possible, Jim Murphy invites young readers to experience the thrill and adventure of struggling against rapids, pushing through dense forest undergrowth, and finally reaching the mountaintop. The highly illustrated format brings the wilderness to life, introducing young children to an important American and his writing. Author's notes. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Thoreau's Maine trips: consolidated, condensed & illustrated
A five-page introductory biography of Henry David Thoreau is followed by the main feature:14 double-page spreads representing Thoreau's trips to Maine.For the sake of this account, several excursions have been combined into one encompassing experience. We travel along as Henry and his companions paddle and portage their canoes through the wilderness.We share in their impressions of moose and the other wildlife they encounter.(The real-life hunting and killing of the moose has been thoughtfully deleted from this re-telling.)Henry's ultimate goal of climbing to the top of Mount Katahdin is realized by the end of the narrative.

Kiesler's paintings and sketches accompany well the text that Murphy has created from Thoreau's writing.This version is laid out in picture book style and is just as accessible for adults as it is for children.Consider it "The Maine Woods," illustrated and abridged. ... Read more


36. Daily Observations: Thoreau On The Days Of The Year (The Spirit of Thoreau)
by Steve Grant, Henry David Thoreau
Paperback: 109 Pages (2005-10-30)
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37. The Works of Henry David Thoreau: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers/Cape Cod/Civil Disobedience/Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
 Hardcover: Pages (1995-04)
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38. Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (Science and Literature Series)
by Laura Dassow, Laura Dassow Walls
Paperback: 316 Pages (1995-09)
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Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Washe also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, thefirst to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, willchange the way we understand his accomplishment and the place ofscience in American culture.Walls reveals that the scientific textsof Thoreaus day deeply influenced his best work, from Walden to theJournal to the late natural history essays. Here we see how, just whenliterature and science were splitting into the two cultures we knownow, Thoreau attempted to heal the growing rift. Walls shows how hiscommitment to Alexander von Humboldts scientific approach resulted innot only his marriage of poetry and science but also his distinctivelypatterned nature studies. In the first critical study of his TheDispersion of Seeds since its publication in 1993, she exposes evidencethat Thoreau was using Darwinian modes of reasoning years before theappearance of Origin of Species.This book offers a powerful argumentagainst the critical tradition that opposes a dry, mechanistic scienceto a warm, organic Romanticism. Instead, Thoreaus experience revealsthe complex interaction between Romanticism and the dynamic,law-seeking science of its day. Drawing on recent work in the theoryand philosophy of science as well as literary history and theory,Seeing New Worlds bridges todays two cultures in hopes of stimulating afuller consideration of representations of nature.An excellent book,well-written, even eloquent. Walls is clearly the first scholar to readThoreau thoroughly in the context both of the science of his own dayand of the theory and philosophy of science in our day, in such a wayas profoundly to call into question all previous work in this area andto open up questions about the very nature of science and scientifictruth.Robert Sattelmeyer, Georgia State University

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4-0 out of 5 stars understanding the nature of HDT's understanding of nature
Thisi is a very important and informative book that I continue to go back to since its first publication almost a decade ago. There is much to interest both the Thoreauvian scholar as well as student of natural history. As a practicing scientist and a editor of two books of Thoreau quotations, I found this work of Walls to be very helpful in increasing my own understanding of 19th century natural science/history. Indeed, I make reference to Walls' book in my own Profitably Soaked: Thoreau's Engagement With Water (Green Frigate Books, 2003).

5-0 out of 5 stars inspiring!
I was so fascinated by Laura Dassow Walls' unique take on Thoreau that I was inspired to complete my own graduate work on Transcendentalism. Any student of Thoreau will appreciate this innovative look at the old master.

5-0 out of 5 stars Walls opens windows to Thoreau's scientific world view!
I first heard Laura Walls deliver the concepts contained in this volume at a recent annual meeting of the Thoreau Society.Her presentation was clear and direct, introducing the hearer to the historical personalities that influenced theplatform upon which Thoreau based his world view.This book expands the same theme, for it fills in a great deal of minutia that had to be omitted from the ealier presentation.Seeing New Worlds is an important excursion into both the obvious and the subtle influences that shaped the late writings of Thoreau, such as Faith in a Seed, which only recently was made available to students of this enigmatic soul.Congratulations to Walls for a well researched intrusion into a complex mind. Tom Potter ... Read more


39. The New Thoreau Handbook (The Gotham Library of the New York University Press)
by Walter Harding, Michael Meyer
 Hardcover: 238 Pages (1980-04-01)
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40. Material Faith: Thoreau on Science
by J. Parker Huber
Paperback: 144 Pages (1999-05-31)
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Thoreau developed ideas fundamental to ecology fifty years before that word was coined. He called for a science that would join man and nature-a "conscience," a moral knowledge founded on material faith. ... Read more


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