Excursions

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was a pioneering author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher. His most celebrated works include ‘Walden’ and ‘Civil Disobedience’.Jeffrey S. Cramer is curator of collections for The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods and the editor of ‘Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition’ and ‘What I Lived For: The Annotated Selected Journals of Henry D. Thoreau’, both published by Yale University Press.

• List of Illustrations; Foreword by Jeffrey S. Cramer; Biographical Sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Natural History of Massachusetts; A Walk to Wachusett; The Landlord; A Winter Walk; The Succession of Forest Trees; Walking; Autumnal Tints; Wild Apples; Night and Moonlight.