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Thoreau: Political Writings

Thoreau: Political Writings

Henry David Thoreau

A complete edition of political essays by the eloquent and influential American writer Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1996.
Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking

Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking

Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau challenges us will understand that man is part of nature, man being one of the most important aspects of its manifestation.
True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every ...

True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every ...

Henry David Thoreau

In addition, True Harvest is designed to help readers use Thoreau's sentiments as a daily spiritual practice'one that promotes a life of simplicity, conscious living, and quiet contemplation.
Twelve Henry David Thoreau Bookmarks

Twelve Henry David Thoreau Bookmarks

Henry David Thoreau

" Pithy, pleasing and sometimes profound sentiments by Thoreau are beautifully enhanced by the lovely watercolor illustrations on these bookmarks. A dozen 2" x 5¾" bookmarks on 6 plates; quotations printed on backs.
The heart of Thoreau's journals

The heart of Thoreau's journals

Henry David Thoreau

Here are "...the choicest fruits of Thoreau..." — Nation.
Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments

Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments

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Joshua David Bellin Henry David Thoreau's relationship to Native American peoples was lifelong, complex, and contradictory. His youthful fascination with the original inhabitants of Concord is evident in an 1837 letter to his older brother John, ...
Journal

Journal

Henry David Thoreau

Volume two of the Journal includes Thoreau's extensive reminiscences of his 1839 excursion with his brother John along the Concord and Merrimack rivers and all his first impressions and observations entered in journals during the famous ...
A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau

A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau

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William E. Cain, the volume editor, includes contributions on his relationship with 19th century authority and concepts of the land, which should help the volume's reach beyond those who read Thoreau for illumination to those general ...
Walden and Civil Disobedience

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi was impressed by Thoreau's arguments. American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was also influenced by this essay.
Thoreau's Quest: Mysticism in the Life and Writings of Henry ...

Thoreau's Quest: Mysticism in the Life and Writings of Henry ...

Paul Hourihan

Mysticism in the Life and Writings of Henry David Thoreau Paul Hourihan Anna Hourihan. Published by: Vedantic Shores Press PO. BOX 493100 Redding, CA 96049 U.S.A. ...
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau

Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau

Kevin Dann

In this groundbreaking work, historian and naturalist Kevin Dann restores Thoreau's esoteric visions and explorations to their rightful place as keystones of the man himself.
An observant eye: the Thoreau collection at the Concord Museum

An observant eye: the Thoreau collection at the Concord Museum

David F. Wood

... of Mrs. Adams Tolman (1943) 2006.56.1 Objects Associated with Jane and Maria Thoreau MORTGAGE DEED, March II, ... December 15, 1874 Sophia E. Thoreau (1819-1876) to George Tolman (1836-1909), Bangor, Maine manuscript on ...
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals

The Heart of Thoreau's Journals

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x Odell Shepard brought discipline, routine, and focus. Largely it was due to the journals that, instead of remaining what he once called “a parcel of vain strivings held by a chance bond together,” Henry Thoreau achieved a unanimous ...
Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion

Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion

Edward F. Mooney

Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious.
Walden (Diversion Classics)

Walden (Diversion Classics)

Henry David Thoreau

Covering topics as diverse as economic independence and spiritual enlightenment, these essays have become a hallmark of American transcendentalism.
The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of ...

The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of ...

Joshua David Bellin

Drawing on works such as Henry David Thoreau's Walden, William Apess' A Son of the Forest, and little known works such as colonial Indian conversion narratives, he explores the ways in which these texts reflect and shape the intercultural ...
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

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Part of the Bloom's Classic Critical Views series, this book includes selections of some of the best historical criticism about Mary Shelley and her works.
The Lost Gospel of Simon Peter

The Lost Gospel of Simon Peter

Daniel F. Owsley

Stan Lequire, Daniel of Amherst, Stephen Hawking, Pablo Picasso, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Shirley Charlotte Bronte, Henry David Thoreau, Voltaire, David Ingram, Kaist Scientific Journal, Alexander Pope, Einstein, Erik Stokstad, ...
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph ...
Tangible Things: Making History through Objects

Tangible Things: Making History through Objects

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The authors of this book pulled an astonishing array of materials out of storage--from a pencil manufactured by Henry David Thoreau to a bracelet made from iridescent beetles--in a wide range of Harvard University collections to mount an ...
Wilderness Visionaries

Wilderness Visionaries

Jim Dale Vickery

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, intro. bv Walter Harding, Salt Lake City, Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., 15 vols, pb., 1984. — , The Maine Woods, ed. by Joseph J. Moldenhauer, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1972. — , Natural History  ...
World-Class Quality: An Executive Handbo

World-Class Quality: An Executive Handbo

Lulla

Chapter 13 The Role of IT in Quality Education / know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour Henry David Thoreau The authors, Ganesh Natarajan and Uma Ganesh, ...
I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of ...

I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of ...

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau as a Source for Artistic Inspiration: ...

Henry David Thoreau as a Source for Artistic Inspiration: ...

Francine Amy Koslow

Neil Welliver (b. 1929, lives in Lincolnville, Maine) Ncil Welliver, one of the best- known contemporary realist painters, chooses the forests and waters of Maine for the subject matter of his large high-colored canvases. Images of Durand and ...
American poetry

American poetry

Walter Bates Rideout

Gay Wilson Allen, Walter Bates Rideout James K. Robinson ... Walter B. Rideout: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, William Vaughn Moody, Ezra Pound, T. S. ...
Ornamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, ...

Ornamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, ...

Theo Davis

This work argues that ornamental aesthetics are central to the writing of Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman.
Jesus, History and Mount Darwin: An Academic Excursion

Jesus, History and Mount Darwin: An Academic Excursion

Rick Kennedy

Written in the genre of Henry David Thoreau's travel-thinking essays, Jesus, History, and Mount Darwin: An Academic Excursion is the story of a three-day climb into the Evolution Range of the High Sierra mountains of California.

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