The Guide To Walden Pond
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Author | : Robert M. Thorson |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1328489175 |
The first guidebook to the landscape and history of the literary shrine to Thoreau, Walden Pond.
Author | : Robert M. Thorson |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1328969215 |
The first guidebook to the landscape and history of the literary shrine to Thoreau, Walden Pond.
Author | : Lesa Cline-Ransome |
Publisher | : Holiday House |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2022-11-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0823448584 |
From the award-winning author of Before She Was Harriet comes another work of lyrical beauty, the story of Henry David Thoreau and businessman Frederic Tudor—and a changing world. Thoreau and Tudor could not have been more different from each other. Yet both shared the bounties of Walden Pond and would change the course of history through their writings and innovations. This study in opposites contrasts the austere philosopher with the consummate capitalist (whose innovations would change commercial ice harvesting and home refrigerators) to show how two seemingly conflicting American legacies could be built side by side. Oddball/ tax dodger/ nature lover/ dreamer/ That’s what they called/ Thoreau. Bankrupt/ disgrace/ good for nothing/ dreamer/ That’s what they called/ Tudor. Celebrated author Lesa Cline-Ransome takes her magnificent talent for research and detail to plumb the depths of these two history-makers. The graceful text is paired with Ashley Benham-Yazdani’s period accurate watercolor and pencil artwork. In winter, readers see Tudor’s men sawing through the ice, the workhorses dragging the ice, and Thoreau observing it all; in spring, summer, and fall, the ice continues its journey across the globe with Thoreau and Tudor writing and reflecting in their respective diaries. An Author’s Note, which explores how Thoreau’s writings influenced such figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Frost, and Mohandas Gandhi, is included.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : American essays |
ISBN | : |
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: This is Thoreau's classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty. One of the most famous essays ever written, it came to the attention of Gandhi and formed the basis for his passive resistance movement.
Author | : Terry Barkley |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2019-06-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1940669952 |
“Barkley’s biography brings Hotham back to life and paints a picture of a complex and fascinating man.” —Richard Smith, acclaimed Living History interpreter of Henry David Thoreau Nearly seven years after Henry Thoreau died in 1862 of tuberculosis in Concord, Massachusetts, a young theological student from New York City arrived in Concord in November 1868. Edmond Hotham had never been there, but he immediately began preparations to pursue the “wild life.” He met transcendentalist poet (William) Ellery Channing, a former close friend of Thoreau’s who had suggested to Thoreau that he build his cabin at Walden Pond. It was Channing who likely introduced Hotham to transcendentalist leader Ralph Waldo Emerson (the “Sage of Concord”), and Emerson who gave Hotham permission, like Thoreau before him, to build his “Earth-cabin” on the poet’s property at Walden Pond. Hotham built his shanty on the pond’s shore about 100 yards in front of Thoreau’s, where he attempted to out-economize and out-simplify Thoreau. Hotham’s sojourn as the second “hermit” at Walden Pond exemplified the growing adulation of Henry David Thoreau and his literary work. Author Terry Barkley has gleaned archival sources, vital records, period newspaper accounts, and census rolls for everything that is known about Edmond Hotham. The Other “Hermit” of Thoreau’s Walden Pond is the first book-length treatise on Hotham, half of which is wholly new material. It far supersedes the late Kenneth Walter Cameron’s 1962 article on Hotham, which until now was the most complete study of the man. Barkley’s groundbreaking study book is an important addition to the Concord-Walden Pond story and a fascinating read. To quote Thoreau, “What is once well done is done forever.”
Author | : Robert M. Thorson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2014-01-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674728408 |
Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Didactic literature, American |
ISBN | : 9781558965850 |
Walden, one of America's classic works on non-fiction, gets a fresh examination from a faith-based, and meditative perspective. Thoreau and the Trancendentalists tried to achieve a balance in their lives between work and leisure, nature and civilization, society and solitude, spiritual aspirations and moral behavior. This guide helps one "walk" through Walden again and find its soul while expanding your own.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Concord River (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Thoreau |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2005-08-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0141964294 |
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simple life within their means, finding spiritual truth through awareness of the sheer beauty of their surroundings.