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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Walden. Boston : Beacon Press, c1997 (OCoLC)647462006 |
| Named Person: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry David Thoreau |
| ISBN: | 0807014184 9780807014189 0807014230 9780807014233 |
| OCLC Number: | 35970236 |
| Description: | xxiii, 312 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Henry David Thoreau ; with an introduction and annotations by Bill McKibben. |
Abstract:
Recent Thoreau scholarship has concentrated on Thoreau as prescient forest ecologist; McKibben - author of the End of Nature and one of our best-read social and environmental critics - places him firmly back in his role as cultural and spiritual seer. McKibben identifies two questions asked by Thoreau as central to a late-twentieth-century reading of Walden: "How much is enough?" and "How do I know what I want?" Questions, McKibben reminds us, that must come to dominate the end of the twentieth century if we are to live well into the twenty-first. McKibben's relevant and lively introduction and annotations to the 1854 edition make us see Walden as, among other things, a way to think about how we use our time, how we spend our money - how to live essential lives.
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- Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
- Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
- Wilderness areas -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
- Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
- Solitude.
