Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau ; with an introduction and annotations by Bill McKibben.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods; Wilderness areas -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods; Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Solitude; Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Social life and customs
Description: Recent Thoreau scholarship has concentrated on Thoreau as prescient forest ecologist; McKibben - author of the End of Nature and one of our best-read social and environmental critics - places him firmly back in his role as cultural and spiritual seer.

McKibben identifies two questions asked by Thoreau as central to a late-twentieth-century reading of Walden: "How much is enough?" and "How do I know what I want?" Questions, McKibben reminds us, that must come to dominate the end of the twentieth century if we are to live well into the twenty-first.

McKibben's relevant and lively introduction and annotations to the 1854 edition make us see Walden as, among other things, a way to think about how we use our time, how we spend our money - how to live essential lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.