Walden, or, A life in the woods / by Henry David Thoreau ; in cooperation with the Walden Woods Project ; photographs by Scot Miller.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.Edition: The 150th anniversary illustrated edDescription: vii, 275 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:- 0618457178
- Life in the woods
- 818/.3/03 22
- PS3048 .A1 2004b
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 818.3 T488 | Available | 33111004330920 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Now featuring an Introduction by Don Henley, founder of the Walden Woods Project, this beautiful commemorative edition of Thoreau's masterpiece features spectacular color photographs that capture Walden as vividly as Thoreau's words do.
Henry David Thoreau was just a few days short of his twenty-eighth birthday when he built a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond and began one of the most famous experiments in living in American history. Originally he was not, apparently, intending to write a book about his life at the pond, but nine years later, in August of 1854, Houghton Mifflin's predecessor, Ticknor and Fields, published Walden; or, aLife in the Woods. At the time the book was largely ignored, and it took five years to sell out the first printing of two thousand copies. It was not until 1862, the year of Thoreau's death, that the book was brought back into print, and it has never been out of print since. Published in hundreds of editions and translated into virtually every modern language, it has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written. Proceeds from the sales of the book will be donated to the Walden Woods Project.
Economy -- Where I lived, and what I lived for -- Reading -- Sounds -- Solitude -- Visitors -- The bean-field -- The village -- The ponds -- Baker farm -- Higher laws -- Brute neighbors -- House-warming -- Former inhabitants; and winter visitors -- Winter animals -- The pond in winter -- Spring -- A statement from the Walden Woods project -- Artist's statement.