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  • Walden (with Introductions by Bradford Torrey and Raymond Macdonald Alden)
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    American author, naturalist, and abolitionist, Henry David Thoreau was a principal figure of the 19th century movement of Transcendentalism. Central to the philosophy is a belief that people, who are inherently good, are corrupted by the organized institutions of society and that consequently the best community is one that is built upon on independence and self-reliance. In Tho...
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  • Notes on New England Birds
    Francis H. 1866-1953 Allen / Francis H1866-1953 Allen / Henry David Thoreau
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    40,09 €

  • Journal; Volume 2
    Henry David Thoreau
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    39,88 €

  • Journal; Volume 6
    Henry David Thoreau
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    39,92 €

  • The Illustrated WALDEN with Photographs from the Gleason Collection
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a special love for what he called 'the simple beauty of New England,' became interested in Thoreau’s work when commissioned in 1906 by the Houghton Mifflin Company to illustrate their ...
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    100,26 €

  • Walden (Illustrated Edition)
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    With 18 Full Color Photos! Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details Thoreau’s sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Walden was written with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau hoped to isolate himself from society in order to gain a more objective understanding ...
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    23,05 €

  • Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
    Henry David Thoreau
    Thoreau’s 'Walden' is an American Classic. E. B. White writes, 'Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives-the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.' This edition, also containing Thoreau’s essay 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience', is in modern easy to read typefa...
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    10,74 €

  • Citizen Thoreau
    Henry David Thoreau
    This set of timeless essays from the quintessential American shares his valuable philosophies on nature, solitude, slavery, religion, politics, fulfilling work, civil responsibilities, and more.WALDEN, Thoreau’s beloved and well-known reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, looks at how the outside world can benefit from renouncing a materialistic way of life.'If...
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    29,08 €

  • An Excursion to Canada
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Diso...
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    8,63 €

  • The Illustrated A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    This book offers a selection of superb photographs by the famous turn-of-the-century photographer Herbert Gleason. Retracing one of Thoreau’s early journeys, Gleason produced moving and dramatic pictures of life along the rivers of New England.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously ...
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    109,73 €

  • The Maine Woods
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Over the course of three years, Henry David Thoreau made three trips into the widely unexplored woods of Maine, taking notes constantly, acutely observing the rivers, the lakes, the mountains, the animals, and stars, he also told of nights sitting by campfires, of meeting men who communicated by writing on the trunks of trees. Here Thoreau captures a lesser known, wild side of ...
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    14,80 €

  • The Maine Woods
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Posthumously published in 1864 The Maine Woods, depicts Henry David Thoreau’s experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author’s transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place 'not even scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world.' In Maine h...
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    16,39 €

  • Walking
    Henry David Thoreau / 1stworldpublishing
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil - to regard man a...
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    13,04 €

  • Walden
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Special Double Edition: WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and ...
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    14,64 €

  • Walden - Life in the Woods - The Transcendentalist Masterpiece
    Henry David Thoreau
    Arguably America’s most famous nonconformist, Thoreau lived at Walden Pond from July 1845 to September 1847, chronicling his experiences there. It was an experiment in living a life unhindered by social trappings and tradition. His work was not widely renowned for years after his death, but later became a staple in modern culture, defining not only what it means to be an Americ...
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    9,44 €

  • Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau
    Henry David Thoreau
    Collected here are an assortment of Thoreau writings displaying his view of nature, life and living. From Walking and Walden to Civil Disobedience, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and more America’s first nature writer awakens the senses and soul.Henry David Thoreau was an author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, ...
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    30,85 €

  • Canoeing in the Wilderness
    Henry David Thoreau
    Thoreau was born at Concord, Massachusetts, July 12, 1817, and at the time he made this wilderness canoe trip he was forty years old. The record of the journey is the latter half of his The Maine Woods, which is perhaps the finest idyl of the forest ever written. It is particularly charming in its blending of meditative and poetic fancies with the minute description of the voya...
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    13,96 €

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  • Walden or Life in the Woods
    Henry David Thoreau
    Henry David Thoreau’s Walden part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self reliance. It covers his experiences over the course of two years living in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, in a woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.While Thoreau did receive ...
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    21,72 €

  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
    Henry David Thoreau
    Henry David Thoreau’s On the Duty of Civil Disobedience presents political theories dissecting democracy and the interaction between citizens and their government. Thoreau was deeply concerned about injustices he witnessed during his life. While he does not oppose government he believes that when a government becomes 'abused and perverted' it ceases to represent the will of th...
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    13,25 €

  • Walking
    Henry David Thoreau
    Walking is a meandering ode to the simple act and accomplished art of taking a walk. Walking by Henry David Thoreau, America’s first nature writer, is your personal and portable guide to the activity that awakens the senses and soul to the ’absolute freedom and wildness’ of nature.Walking is a perfect little book to carry with you for inspiration. It takes you on a walk in your...
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    13,34 €

  • Walden
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Henry David Thoreau’s story of his years spent in a small cabin in the Massachusetts forests has had an international impact out of all proportion to its apparently simple bucolic subject. But in Walden, Thoreau uses his life in the woods to produce both a social critique of Western Culture, and to examine many fundamental questions of human existence. The book is part voyag...
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    9,82 €

  • Summer - From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    First published in 1884, Summer – From the Journals of Henry David Thoreau is a charming volume of Thoreau’s observations during the American summertime between the years of 1841 and 1859.Full of enchanting descriptions, this enthusiastic volume spans the months of June and July, with daily entries illustrating Thoreau’s experiences with the natural landscape over the 20 years ...
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    37,64 €

  • Thoreau Day By Day (1909)
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,33 €

  • Excursions
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    First published in 1863, 'Excursions' is a collection of essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. It contains nine essays in total, as well as a biographical sketch of Thoreau by fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. The essays are: 'Natural History of Massachusetts', 'A Walk to Wachusett', 'The Landlord', 'A Winter Walk', 'The Succession of Forest Tree...
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    39,50 €