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Summary: Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 THOThoreau, Henry David
Contents: The texts of Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings: Walden -- Civil disobedience -- Slavery in Massachusetts -- Walking -- Wild apples -- Journal: The Journal and Walden -- Selections from the Journal, 1845-54 -- Reviews and posthumous assessments -- Modern criticism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Filmed on location in and around Concord, Cambridge, and Cape Cod, this delightful program brings Henry David Thoreau's Walden and "Civil Disobedience" to life through the captivating delivery of Thoreau impersonator Jeffrey Hyatt. Long passages, as expressed by Hyatt, capture the energy and intensity of Thoreau's words, while presenter James H. Bride II and Thoreau specialists Lawrence Buell,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Thoreau, Henry David
Summary: In 1845, Henry David Thoreau, while living beside Walden Pond, returned to nature to observe and reflect while surviving on eight dollars a year. From this experience emerged one of the classics of American literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.3 THOThoreau, Henry David
Summary: An unabridged republication of nineteenth-century essayist Henry David Thoreau's reflections on the natural world, written during a two year period when he lived alone in a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 THOWalls, Laura Dassow
Summary: Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOREAU, HENRY DAVID WALThoreau, Henry David
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.3 THOThoreau, Henry David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Createspace 0000
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Empire Books] 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil ThoreauCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "The story of Henry David Thoreau's time at Walden Pond is contrasted with businessman Frederic Tudor's scheme to cut 180 tons of ice from Walden Pond and transport it to India"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This visual ode to 19th-century philosophical writer Henry David Thoreau's beloved Walden Pond combines magnificent nature photography with highlights from Thoreau's timeless writings on the beauty and serenity of this New England retreat. Thoreau's Walden allows the viewer to walk in the solitude of Thoreau's footsteps and witness the idyllic wilderness of the famed Massachusetts pond as it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Photovision 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV THOThoreau, Henry David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bramhall House 1950
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 THOThoreau, Henry David
Summary: Thoreau's last important research and writing projects, published here for the first time, draws on Darwin's theory of natural selection to describe plant ecology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 582.0467 THOThoreau, Henry David
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1973
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Publisher / Publication Date: Printed exclusively for members of the Bibliophile Society 1905
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.31 THOBunge, Nancy L.
Contents: Preparation for the journey -- The reality of mission life -- Building a home alone in the forest -- Standing with the Ojibwe against removal and smallpox -- Struggling against sickness -- Harriet's children -- Life without a mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BUNThoreau, Henry David
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1906
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 THOKaag, John
Summary: "In this book, John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle illuminate an underexplored aspect of worked-over cultural icon Henry David Thoreau and what his thinking has to tell us about the way we work now. Henry at Work overturns the popular perception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse, scornful of work and other mundanities. Just the opposite, they argue, Thoreau worked hard and thought intensely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: A re-creation of the two-year period (1845-1847) during which Thoreau lived alone in a cabin at Walden Pond, savoring the fruits of solitary communion with Nature while bemoaning the lot of the mass of men who lead lives of quiet desperation. The visuals offer an exceptionally lyrical illustration of the passing of the seasons; the commentary is drawn from Thoreau's own words.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Locker, Thomas
Summary: Introduces philosopher, writer, and environmentalist Henry David Thoreau, using selections from his own writings and an imaginary journey into the wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THOSummary: This unabridged collection covers a multitude of subjects, including philosophy, politics, turkeys, and dogs. It includes Ralph Waldo Emerson's ''Self Reliance''; Henry David Thoreau's ''Walking'' and ''Civil Disobedience''; Mark Twain's ''Hunting the Deceitful Turkey''; Benjamin Franklin's ''Reply to a Begging Letter''; and Thomas Paine's ''The American Crisis''. Also includes essays by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Words 2012
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Contents: pt. 1. What's the problem? -- Why hasn't God brought me the love of my life? -- Gut check -- Where I am coming from -- Dating is not about marriage -- pt. 2. The program -- Keep a log -- If you say, "there are no good prospects," you don't get it -- Meet five a week -- Change your traffic pattern -- Get over the stigma : join a service -- Stick with it, and get your numbers up -- Get your team...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2005