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<p>"This wonderful book is both a practical and a philosophical field guide to the natural gifts of the American countryside."&mdash;<b>Audubon</b></p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>Thoreau's Walden (1854) is regarded both as a masterpiece of American prose and as a forerunner of modern environmentalism. Its author spent much of the 1850s learning what botany could teach him about the New England woods he chronicled. Thoreau brought that knowledge to bear on this sometimes very beautiful essay about plants, fruits and nuts, left incomplete at his death in 1862 and here printed for the first time. Thoreau's brief preface echoes the passions of Walden: "What are all the oranges imported into England to the hips and haws in her hedges?" The rest of the work is arranged fruit by fruit: we begin with elm-fruit ("most mistake the fruit before it falls for leaves, and we owe to it the first deepening of the shadows in our streets"), and proceed through several dozen entries to sassafras, skunk cabbage, strawberries, cranberries, juniper berries and, finally, "winter fruits." Though many plants' entries comprise just a few sentences, some offer plenty of room to meditate. Huckleberries pro

Author

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Dean, Bradley P

Publisher

New York: W.W. Norton

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393321159

Subjects

Science, Stem