| Edition |
First hardcover edition |
| Description |
107 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Map on lining papers |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Summary |
""In Wildness is the preservation of the World," wrote Henry David Thoreau in his iconic deathbed essay "Walking." Published posthumously in 1862, "Walking" became a seminal influence in the environmental movement. "Above all," wrote Thoreau, "we cannot afford not to live in the present." He extolled walking as a delightful and necessary idleness, an antidote to the burdens of civilization, a means of immersing ourselves in nature and awakening to the moment. "Walking" is widely recognized as Thoreau's "other" masterpiece, Walden in a more concise form. Each reading of "Walking" offers new epiphanies from a writer and thinker who, two centuries after his birth in 1817, remains a towering figure in American nature writing. In the introduction to this book, Adam Tuchinsky accessibly and engagingly unpacks the essay's nineteenth-century associations and highlights the startling modernity of its sentiments."--Jacket flap |
| Subject |
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods
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Walking -- Philosophy
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Wilderness areas -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods
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Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods
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| Alt Author |
Tuchinsky, Adam-Max, writer of introduction
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| OCLC Number |
975900928 |
| ISBN |
9780884486138 (hardcover) |
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0884486133 (hardcover) |
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