1817-1862

Thoreau details his solitary and simple life on the shores of Walden Pond.

Poet Ian Marshall extracts nearly three hundred haiku verses from within Henry David Thoreau's "Walden, " and discusses the haiku form of poetry, Thoreau's text, and American nature writing.

Presents more than thirty photos of Walden Pond and its adjoining woods, accompanied by quotations from Henry David Thoreau's "Walden.".

Presents the full text of nineteenth-century American writer Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"; selections from "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," "Cape Cod," and "The Maine Woods"; and five significant essays by Thoreau.

An annotated edition of nineteenth-century American writer Henry David Thoreau's treatise on nonviolent resistance and protest, "Civil Disobedience," and his reflections upon living alone among nature for two years on Walden Pond in Massachusetts, "Walden"; also includes eighteen writings both contemporary with and in response to Thoreau's.

Presents excerpts from the writings of nineteenth-century essayist and poet Henry David Thoreau in which he expresses his thinking about education.