{"product_id":"excursions-henry-david-thoreau-9780691064505","title":"Excursions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExcursions\u003c\/i\u003e presents texts of nine essays, including some of Henry D. Thoreau's most engaging and popular works, newly edited and based on the most authoritative versions of each. These essays represent Thoreau in many stages of his writing career, ranging from 1842--when he accepted Emerson's commission to review four volumes of botanical and zoological catalogues in an essay that was published in \u003ci\u003eThe Dial\u003c\/i\u003e as \"Natural History of Massachusetts\"--to 1862, when he prepared \"Wild Apples,\" a lecture he had delivered during the Concord Lyceum's 1859-1860 season, for publication in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e after his death. Three other early meditations on natural history and human nature, \"A Winter Walk,\" \"A Walk to Wachusett,\" and \"The Landlord,\" were originally published in 1842 and 1843. Lively, light pieces, they reveal Thoreau's early use of themes and approaches that recur throughout his work. \"A Yankee in Canada,\" a book-length account of an 1850 trip to Quebec that was published in part in 1853, is a fitting companion to \u003ci\u003eCape Cod\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Maine Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, Thoreau's other long accounts of explorations of internal as well as external geography. In the last four essays, \"The Succession of Forest Trees\" (1860), \"Autumnal Tints\" (1862), \"Walking\" (1862), and \"Wild Apples\" (1862), Thoreau describes natural and philosophical phenomena with a breadth of view and generosity of tone that are characteristic of his mature writing. In their skillful use of precisely observed details to arrive at universal conclusions, these late essays exemplify Transcendental natural history at its best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry David Thoreau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691064504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691064505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.03h x 6.39w x 1.71d","brand":"Henry David Thoreau","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46685605331199,"sku":"9780691064505","price":104.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d35d3a9b-7ac4-4b0a-a3c0-df0acbe009c4.jpg?v=1741726224","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/excursions-henry-david-thoreau-9780691064505","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}