Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays

This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden . First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood became increasingly urbanized and industrialized. William Rossi's introduction puts the essays in the context of Thoreau's other major works, both chronologically and intellectually. Rossi also