Description
This Bicentennial Edition of Walden includes 30 reproductions of the engravings, daguerreotypes, and period photographs which appeared in the first illustrated volume, released in 1897. With an introduction by naturalist and author Bradford Torrey. This is a high-quality, beautiful book to give as a gift or to enjoy oneself.
Walden details Thoreau’s experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the color and clarity of different bodies of water, precisely dates and describes the freezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly “bottomless” Walden Pond.
ISBN: 9780143129264
Published Date: October 25, 2016
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Page Count: 400
Size: 8.56″ l x 5.72″ w x 1.24″ h
