Walden.
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Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Peter Pauper Press, [1966].
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Book
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62 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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Recent Thoreau scholarship has concentrated on Thoreau as prescient forest ecologist; McKibben - author of the End of Nature and one of our best-read social and environmental critics - places him firmly back in his role as cultural and spiritual seer. McKibben identifies two questions asked by Thoreau as central to a late-twentieth-century reading of Walden: "How much is enough?" and "How do I know what I want?" Questions, McKibben reminds us, that must come to dominate the end of the twentieth century if we are to live well into the twenty-first. McKibben's relevant and lively introduction and annotations to the 1854 edition make us see Walden as, among other things, a way to think about how we use our time, how we spend our money - how to live essential lives,
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Winchester Adult Nonfiction
808.24 THO
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English
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"Abridged edition."
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Nonfiction.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Thoreau, H. D. (1966). Walden.. Mount Vernon, N.Y., Peter Pauper Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. 1966. Walden.. Mount Vernon, N.Y., Peter Pauper Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, Walden.. Mount Vernon, N.Y., Peter Pauper Press, 1966.
MLA Citation (style guide)Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.. Mount Vernon, N.Y., Peter Pauper Press, 1966.
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