Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings

This revised and expanded Third Edition adds three important post-Walden essays, 'Slavery in Massachusetts,' 'Walking,' and 'Wild Apples,' bringing the full scope of Thoreau's mature powers to twenty-first-century readers. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, Thoreau's survey of Walden Pond, and the 1852 Walling map of Concord village and its environs. As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous excerpts from Thoreau's journal, reprinted by special arrangements with Princeton University Press from the definitive edition of his writings. Spanning the years 1845-54, these selections vividly display Thoreau's intensive exploration of his local landscape; the fusion of literary and natural history field work that informs Walden, 'Walking,' and 'Wild Apples'; and the growth of his environmental imagination. “Reviews and Posthumous Assessments” for this edition collects eight new reviews of Thoreau's antislavery and late environmental essays as well as of Walden