A Yankee in Canada
Subtitle: with Anti-slavery and reform papers.
By: By Henry D. Thoreau.
Contributors: Thoreau, Sophia E., ed.; Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901, joint ed.; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Published: 1866
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Brown, John, 1800-1859; Slavery -- United States; Québec (Province) -- Description and travel
Notes: First edition, edited by Sophia Thoreau and W. E. Channing.
The first three chapters appeared in Putnam's magazine 1853 under the title of "Excursion to Canada".
"Prayers" was attributed to Thoreau by mistake, only a prayer in verse included being his.  The essay itself, first published in the Dial, is by Emerson and is now published in his Natural history of the intellect.
Table of contents: title: A Yankee in Canada.; title: Anti-slavery and reform papers:  Slavery in Massachusetts.; title: Prayers.; title: Civil disobedience.; title: A plea for Captain John Brown.; title: Paradise (to be) regained.; title: Herald of freedom.; title: Thomas Carlyle and his works.; title: Life without principle.; title: Wendell Phillips before the Concord lyceum.; title: The last days of John Brown.