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Thoreau muses on his own vulnerability and the humility engendered by his reflections in Maine. Thoreau’s passionate outcry against the degradation of the environment in The Maine Woods is edited … Read more

This new selection of Thoreau’s essays by Jeffrey S. Cramer, award-winning editor and Curator of Collections at The Walden Woods Project, traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets … Read more

An annotated selection from Thoreau’s Journal’s, also edited by Jeffrey Cramer and published by Yale University Press. This paperback book offers the largest selection of journal passages ever published, along with … Read more

A freshly annotated text of Walden, edited by Jeffrey Cramer, The Walden Woods Project’s Curator of Collections, and published by Yale University Press. It has been called a “handsome, ‘all-things-Walden’ … Read more

Hardcover book, edited by Don Henley and Dave Marsh. Written by over 40 prominent authors, entertainers, political leaders, and environmental activists, this book is an informative and entertaining collection of … Read more

Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American West by David Gessner To reconnect with the American wilderness and with the president who courageously protected it, acclaimed … Read more

Photographer Scot Miller takes on the seminal work of John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra. The book details Muir’s first extended trip to the Sierra Nevada in what … Read more

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker to shape and define the American mind. Literary giants including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, … Read more

This edition of Thoreau’s most important writing, which now includes an introduction by award-winning scholar and Walden Woods Project Curator, Jeffrey S. Cramer, as well as newly-edited selections from his … Read more

CNN Presidential Historian, Rice University history professor and author Dr. Douglas Brinkley spoke at the Thoreau Institute about Henry David Thoreau and the history of America’s public lands.  His book, … Read more

A thoughtfully researched, movingly presented dual-biography of two iconic American writers, each trying to fine the ideal friend with whom they could share their journey through our imperfect world. Any … Read more

“The Guide to Walden Pond: An Exploration of the History, Nature, Landscape, and Literature of One of America’s Most Iconic Places” is the first guidebook to Henry David Thoreau’s most … Read more