Title: Walden /
Authors: Thoreau, Henry David,; Fender, Stephen.
Date: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: lvii, 375 pages : maps ; 19 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Abstract: Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition traces the sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and sense of history--social, economic, and natural. An ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad plants and animals to which he gave close attention as he became acclimated to his life in the woods by Walden Pond.
Contents: Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- Chronology of Henry David Thoreau -- Map: Concord, Massachusetts -- Map: Concord area -- Walden -- Appendix -- Explanatory notes.
Notes: "Chronology of Henry David Thoreau": p. [lii]-lvii.
Subject headings (LCSH): Authors, American--19th century--Biography.; Natural history--Massachusetts--Walden Woods.; Solitude.; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Walden Woods.; Walden Woods (Mass.)--Social life and customs.; Wilderness areas--Massachusetts--Walden Woods.