Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He spent time as a school teacher after attending Harvard College but was dismissed for his refusal to administer corporal punishment. In 1845, wanting to write his first book, he ... [... more]
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. His father worked successively as a farmer, a grocer, and a manufacturer of pencils, and the family was frequently in difficult financial straits. After studying locally, ... [... more]
Random House |
Thoughts from Walden Pond 2009 Wall Calendar
 Thoughts from Walden Pond Wall Calendar: After living for over two years in a small cabin near Walden Pond (Massachusetts), Henry David Thoreau recorded the insights he'd gained there in his classic 1854 book Walden. More than a century and a half later, [... more]
Calendar Club CA |
John James Audubon
This unprecedented anthology of John James Audubon's lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness reintroduces the great artist and ornithologist as an exceptional American writer, a predecessor to Thoreau, Emerson, and ... [... more]
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Loretta Hausman
It's July 4, 1845. A soft-spoken young man named Henry David Thoreau has carefully constructed a small, simple cabin in the woods overlooking Walden Pond. For the next two years, his closest companions will be the chickadees, the woodchucks, and ... [... more]
Random House |
Brian Swann
Arnold Krupat is the author of several books, including The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism & Culture and the novel Woodsmen, or Thoreau and the Indians. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Brian Swann has published a number of ... [... more]
Random House |
Gerald Hausman
It's July 4, 1845. A soft-spoken young man named Henry David Thoreau has carefully constructed a small, simple cabin in the woods overlooking Walden Pond. For the next two years, his closest companions will be the chickadees, the woodchucks, and ... [... more]
Random House |
Michael McCurdy
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became ... [... more]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was a renowned lecturer and writer, whose ideas on philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. After an undergraduate career at Harvard, he studied ... [... more]
Random House |
Yankee Wisdom 2009 Wall Calendar
Yankee Wisdom Wall Calendar: This calendar features the thoughtful ponderings of Emerson, Dickinson and Thoreau mixed with the down home humor and advice of The Old Farmer's Almanac. Photographs of the peaceful New England landscape by Jane English and [... more]
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