This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing i

A meditation on apples begins with a short history of the apple tree, tracing its path from ancient Greece to America. Thoreau saw the apple as a perfect mirror

Julian McCulloch finds that in his search for new values and love that he must break with his parents. A novel of the conflicts of maturing adolescence set in C

Thoreau presents information about the "'unnoticed wild berry whose beauty annually lends a new charm to some wild walk, '" along with what "may be considered T

Celebrate the tradition of literary naturalists and writers who embrace the natural world as the setting for some of our most euphoric and serious experiences.