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Clear Sky, Pure Light: Encounters with Henry David Thoreau
Compiled from Thoreau's writings by Christopher Childs
With an Introduction by Walter Harding
Wood Engravings by Michael McCurdy
Table on Contents
- Introduction by Walter Harding
- Foreword by Christopher Childs
- A Preface: Speech and Silence
- River: Wildness and Civilization
- Gods
- On Being a Writer
- Loss
- On Improvements
- The Woods, and Walden
- Resistance to Civil Government
- Return
- On the Nature and Origin of an Accident
- Friendship and Singularity
- John Brown
- Late Thoughts
- Departure
This digital edition is presented as a coöperative project of The Thoreau Insitute at Walden Woods and The Penmaen Press
Originally published: The Penmaen Press, 1978. All rights reserved: Christopher Childs, ©1978
Published with the permission of Christopher Childs and Michael McCurdy
Related Links:
Christopher Childs' website
Michael McCurdy's website
Book jacket from Clear Sky, Pure Light, 1978 (From the Walter Harding Collection)
I have an immense appetite for solitude. — Thoreau to Daniel Ricketson, 9 September 1857
