walden woods

Collects annotated reprints of "Walden," "Civil Disobedience," "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Walking," and "Wild Apples," with sections from Thoreau's "Journal" and reactions to the author by Ralph Waldo Emerson and others with criticism by nineteen contributors, including E.B. White and Barbara Johnson.

Provides a comprehensive history of Walden Pond, the natural area made famous by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

Presents nineteenth-century American author Henry David Thoreau's reflections on living alone among nature for two years on Walden Pond in Massachusetts, and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and an ecological appendix.

Thoreau details his solitary and simple life on the shores of Walden Pond.

Presents more than thirty photos of Walden Pond and its adjoining woods, accompanied by quotations from Henry David Thoreau's "Walden.".

Presents the full text of nineteenth-century American writer Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"; selections from "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," "Cape Cod," and "The Maine Woods"; and five significant essays by Thoreau.