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Cape Codby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0140170022 (0-14-017002-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cape Cod'Book summary:Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea[via]
Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreaus journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coastline, during which time he came to understand the complex relationship between the sea and the shore. He spent his nights in lighthouses, in fishing huts, and on isolated farms. He passed his days wandering the beaches, where he observed the wide variety of life and death offered up by the ocean. Through these observations, Thoreau discovered that the only way to truly know the sea—its depth, its wildness, and the natural life it contained—was to study it from the shore. Like his most famous work, Walden, Cape Cod is full of Thoreaus unique perceptions and precise descriptions. But it is also full of his own joy and wonder at having stumbled across a new frontier so close to home, where a man may stand and “put all America behind him.
Part of the Penguin Nature Library
Series Editor: Edward Hoagland
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Great Short Works of Henry David Thoreauby Henry David Thoreau , Wendell GlickISBN 0060805986 (0-06-080598-6)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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Maine Woodsby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0140170138 (0-14-017013-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maine Woods'Book summary:Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of those journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. It presents Thoreau's fullest account of the wilderness.
"The Maine Woods" is classic Thoreau: a personal story of exterior and interior discoveries in a natural setting--all conveyed in taut, masterly prose. Thoreau's evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest--its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants--are timeless and valuable on their own. But his impassioned protest against the despoilment of nature in the name of commerce and sport, which even by the 1850s threatened to deprive Americans of the "tonic of wildness," makes "The Maine Woods" an especially vital book for our own time.
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The Portable Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0140150315 (0-14-015031-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Thoreau'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner bent, which was that of a poet-philosopher, in prose and verse.[via]Carl Bode brings together the best of Thoreaus works in The Portable Thoreau, a comprehensive collection of the writings of a unique and profoundly influential American thinker. The complete texts of Thoreaus classic works Walden and Civil Disobedience, as well as selections from The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, the Journal, and eighteen poems are included. Bodes introduction rounds out this compact volume, offering a thorough and informative analysis of Thoreau and the forces that shaped his life and writing.
This compact book, containing infinite riches in a little room, is a simple setting for sound sense, nugget-like thought, the refined essences of a point of view
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Thoreau's Vision: The Major Essaysby Henry David Thoreau , Charles Roberts AndersonISBN 0139194150 (0-13-919415-0)
Softcover, Prentice-Hall
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Thoreau's World: Miniatures from His Journalby Henry David Thoreau , Charles R. AndersonISBN 0139199284 (0-13-919928-4)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0060955724 (0-06-095572-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:In 1845 Thoreau leased some land owned by his friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, and lived in a cabin on it for two years, two months, and two days. The experience gave Thoreau the chance to make keen observations on the world around him. The result became an American classic: Walden explores not only the soul of the searching Thoreau, but defines what it means to be a truly free person, and distills the essence of our relationship of Nature.
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Walden / Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0014039443 (0-01-403944-3)
Softcover, Cartermill International Limited
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 006080615X (0-06-080615-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Civil Disobedience'Book summary:'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.' Disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods by Walden Pond. Walden, the classic account of his stay there, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance. But even as Thoreau disentangled himself from worldly matters, his solitary musings were often disturbed by his social conscience. 'Civil Disobedience', expressing his antislavery and antiwar sentiments, has influenced nonviolent resistance movements worldwide. Michael Meyer's introduction points out that Walden is not so much an autobiographical study as a 'shining example' of Transcendental individualism. So, too, 'Civil Disobedience' is less a call to political activism than a statement of Thoreau's insistence on living a life of principle. [via]
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David Thoreau , William L. HowarthISBN 0075542676 (0-07-554267-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Walden on the Duty of Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau , William L. HowarthISBN 0030093201 (0-03-009320-1)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Walden, or Life in the Woods, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau , Charles R. AndersonISBN 002054720X (0-02-054720-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Walkingby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0062511130 (0-06-251113-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0060974532 (0-06-097453-2)
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