…partly because my seventeen year old son is writing a fifteen page paper on Thoreau’s legacy, and partly because I’ve been a lifelong reader of Henry David Thoreau, I thought we’d do a little Thoreau blogging. I’ve just finished Robert Sullivan’s book The Thoreau You Don’t Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant, and it’s excellent: witty, insightful, a marvelous personal reflection on Thoreau. With that in mind, and with summer reading season officially open, below is a list of editions of Walden and other writings, along with newer titles about Thoreau:
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden, Maine Woods, Cape Cod Literary Classics of the United States
- Wild Fruits: Thoreau’s Rediscovered Last Manuscript Edited by Bradley P. Dean, Illustrated by Abigail Rorer
- Walden Wood Engravings by Michael McCurdy
- Walden Edited by Edward Hoagland
- Tracking Thoreau: Double Crossing Nature and Technology by John Dolis
- Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing by Alfred I Tauber
- Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau Edited by William E. Cain
- Henry Thoreau A Life of the Mind by Robert D. Richardson Jr.
Great way to start the summer. ODY is closed over the Memorial Day weekend, but open again on June First. Because of various teaching and bibliographic commitments Odyssey Online is going to be dormant until June Seventh, but then we’ve got some great summer blogging planned. Until then…