Walden: With an Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
With An Introduction And Annotations By Bill McKibben
$35.37
- Paperback
344 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2018
Summary
An annotated, re-packaged edition of Walden to honor the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, featuring an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibbenIn honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben”Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’sWaldenas the gospel of the present moment, as a neccessary book because it is useful right now.“–Robert Richard…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807098134 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0807098132 |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau, Bill McKibben |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 403g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Concord Library |
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Critics Review
“Walden—republished by Beacon Press this year with an inspired introduction by Bill McKibben about Thoreau’s relevance to our own spiritually impoverished reality—is arguably the most important work of literary nonfiction in the American canon.”
—The New York Review of Books
“Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’s Walden as the gospel of the present moment.”
—Robert D. Richardson Jr., author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
“A stunning new edition [with an] illuminating introduction…McKibben’s voice melds with, but never overtakes, that of Thoreau.”
—The Oregonian
“McKibben provides the most Thoreauvian introduction to Thoreau’s classic that I have ever seen.”
—Lawrence Buell, author of Emerson and Writing for an Endangered World
About The Author
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a writer, philosopher, and naturalist. Walden is considered his masterpiece.Bill McKibben has written a dozen books about the environment, including The End of Nature and Oil and Honey. Founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, he is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College.
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