This handsome, affordable paperback edition is based on the original 1854 edition with emendations taken from Thoreau's draft manuscripts, his own markings on page proofs, and notes in his personal copy of the book.

Texts of Walden and Resistance to civil government, and contemporary reviews and criticism.

A concise survey of the life of the poet and naturalist pays special attention to the writing of Walden

Maps the intricate relationship between culture, politics, and sexuality over three centuries - now in paperback!

Where do our journeys take us? What do we leave behind? What do we carry with us? How do we find our way? You are invited to consider a more graceful way of traveling through life. With arresting clarity, Journeys of Simplicity offers vignettes of forty travelers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them—from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death. Edward Abbey Nellie Bly Raymond Carver Dorothy Day Marcel Duchamp Dolores Garcia /Emma “Grandma” Gatewood Mohandas Gandhi Peter Matthiessen William Least Heat Moon John Muir Robert Pirsig Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton Henry David Thoreau Father Zossima and others

W. D. Wetherell has a sharp, fresh eye and a complicated view of our dislocations, pains and dreams. The New York Times