New England transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau s 1843 essay A Winter Walk is a loving celebration of winter and walking. Thoreau vividly renders the winter season, writing of its sparkling beauty, its purity, and its stillness, and perfectly describing the warmth, coziness, and cheer to be found back at the home hearth. This short work is part of Applewood s American Roots, series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America s most famous writers."
New England transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau s 1843 essay A Winter Walk is a loving celebration of winter and walking. Thoreau vividly renders th...
Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it, -to penetrate to the shores of its Lake Tchad, and discover the source of its Nile, perchance the Mountains of the Moon? Who knows what fertility and beauty, moral and natural, are there to be found
Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it, -to penetrate to the shores of its Lake Tchad, and discover t...
These essays show how Thoreau melded conventions of natural history writing with elements of two popular literary forms--travel writing and landscape writing--to explore concerns ranging from America's westward expansion to the figural dimensions of scientific facts and phenomena.
These essays show how Thoreau melded conventions of natural history writing with elements of two popular literary forms--travel writing and landscape ...