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Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

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Walden & Civil Disobedience

Selections from the American Classic

Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben

Selections from the American Classic

Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben

By Henry David Thoreau

By Henry David Thoreau

By Henry David Thoreau
Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams

By Henry David Thoreau
Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams

By Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Bill McKibben

By Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Bill McKibben

By Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Bill McKibben

By Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Bill McKibben

By Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg

By Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg

By Henry David Thoreau
Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams

By Henry David Thoreau
Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams

By Henry David Thoreau

By Henry David Thoreau

By Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Bill McKibben

By Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Bill McKibben

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    About Walden & Civil Disobedience

    Henry David Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts—part social experiment, part spiritual quest—is an enduringly influential American classic.

    In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyrical book that resulted is both a record of the two years Thoreau spent in withdrawal from society and a declaration of personal independence. By virtue of its casual, offhandedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his immersion in solitude has become a signpost for the modern mind in an increasingly bewildering world.

    Also included in this edition is Thoreau’s famous essay, “Civil Disobedience,” inspired by his anti-war and anti-slavery sentiments, which has influenced nonviolent resistance movements around the world ever since.

    About Walden & Civil Disobedience

    Selections from one of the great classics of literature–now part of the Shambhala Pocket Library.

    In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature. Since its first publication in 1854, the work has become a classic, beloved for its message of living simply and in harmony with nature.

    This abridged edition of Walden features exquisite wood engravings by Michael McCurdy and a foreword by noted author and environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams, who reflects upon Thoreau’s message that as we explore our world and ourselves, we draw closer to the truth of our connectedness.


    This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series.

    The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life.

    About Walden & Civil Disobedience

    First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and spiritual seer, this beautiful edition of Walden for the new millennium is more accessible and relevant than ever.

    About Walden & Civil Disobedience

     

    By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly bewildering world. Deeply sane, invigorating in its awareness of humanity’s place in the moral and natural order, Walden represents the progressive spirit of nineteenth-century America at its eloquent best.

    About Walden & Civil Disobedience

    Selections from one of the great classics of literature–now part of the Shambhala Pocket Library.

    In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature. Since its first publication in 1854, the work has become a classic, beloved for its message of living simply and in harmony with nature.

    This abridged edition of Walden features exquisite wood engravings by Michael McCurdy and a foreword by noted author and environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams, who reflects upon Thoreau’s message that as we explore our world and ourselves, we draw closer to the truth of our connectedness.


    This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series.

    The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life.

    About Walden & Civil Disobedience

    In honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben

    “Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’s Walden as the gospel of the present moment, as a neccessary book because it is useful right now.”
    –Robert Richardson, author of Henry Thoreau, A Life of the Mind and Emerson: The Mind on Fire

    “We need to understand that when Thoreau sat in the dooryard of his cabin ‘from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house,’ he was offering counsel and example exactly suited for our perilous moment in time.”
    —Bill McKibben, from the introduction

    First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind, a love of nature, and a longing for simplicity and contemplation. Bill McKibben provides a newly revised introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and spiritual seer. This beautiful edition of Walden, published in honor of the bicentennial of Thoreau’s birth, is more accessible and relevant than ever in an age of technological change and ecological crisis.

    About Walden & Civil Disobedience

    First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and spiritual seer, this beautiful edition of Walden for the new millennium is more accessible and relevant than ever.

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    The Portable Thoreau
    Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
    The American Transcendentalists
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    About Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. His father worked successively as a farmer, a grocer, and a manufacturer of pencils, and the family was frequently in difficult financial straits. After studying locally, Thoreau won… More about Henry David Thoreau

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    Product Details

    Category: Nonfiction Classics | Philosophy

    Paperback | $11.00
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 26, 2014 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780804171564

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    Published by Beacon Press
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    Published by Beacon Press
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    Category: Nonfiction Classics | Philosophy

    Hardcover | $23.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
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    Published by Beacon Press
    Jul 15, 2004 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780807097137

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    Praise

    Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’s Walden as the gospel of the present moment. –Robert D. Richardson, Jr., author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind

    ‘[Thoreau] says so many pithy and brilliant things, and offers so many piquant, and, we may add, so many just, comments on society as it is, that this book is well worth the reading, both for its actual contents and its suggestive capacity.’ –A. P. Peabody, North American Review, 1854

    ‘[Walden] still seems to me the best youth’s companion yet written by an American, for it carries a solemn warning against the loss of one’s valuables, it advances a good argument for traveling light and trying new adventures, it rings with the power of powerful adoration, it contains religious feeling without religious images, and it steadfastly refuses to record bad news.’ –E. B. White, Yale Review, 1954

    ‘Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’s Walden as the gospel of the present moment.’ -Robert D. Richardson, Jr., author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind

    Table Of Contents

    Introduction by
    Bill McKibben

    WALDEN
    Economy

    Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

    Reading

    Sounds

    Solitude

    Visitors

    The Bean-Field

    The Village

    The Ponds

    Baker Farm

    Higher Laws

    Brute Neighbors

    House-Warming

    Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors

    Winter Animals

    The Pond in Winter

    Spring

    Conclusion

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