Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays by Henry D Thoreau

Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays by Henry D Thoreau

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 in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood became increasingly urbanized and industrialized.

I know of no one working in Thoreau studies with a deeper understanding of Thoreau's relation to the natural sciences and the natural history of his dayWilliam Rossi's introduction is better than any treatment of these essays I have seen.

-- H. Daniel Peck * Vassar College *

This slender volume is filled with an amazing range of topics, and it gives us great insight into the world of Thoreau as well as into life in America in the 19th century.

-- Barbara G. Mahany * Current Books on Gardening & Botany *

A welcome release for Thoureau readers and scholars . . . The issues Rossi engages still burn, as does Thoreau's extravagant rhetoric.

-- ISLE

Wild Apples provides valuable insights into the progression of Thoreau's literary and ecological sensibilities. . . . Recent converts and dedicated Thoreauvians alike will no doubt find the material in Wild Apples charming and absorbing.

-- Environment and History

WILLIAM ROSSI is an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon. He is the author of essays on Thoreau, Emerson, and others and coeditor of two volumes of Thoreau's Journal for the Princeton University Press edition of his writings.

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ISBN 13	9780820352756
ISBN 10	0820352756
Title	Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays
Author	Henry D Thoreau
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
Year published	2017-04-01
Number of pages	240
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