Travels with Thoreau: Selected Bibliographies

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Biographies

as outlined in episode ten of the video series, Studying Thoreau.

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   The Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography. By Walter Harding, Dover Publications, 1962, 1982.

 

 

      Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. By Robert R. Richardson Jr. University of California Press, 1986.

 

 

    Henry David Thoreau: A Life. By Laura Dassow Walls. The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

  Westward I Go Free: Tracing Thoreau's Last Journey. By Corinne Hosfeld Smith. Green Frigate Books, 2012.

 

 

   Henry David Thoreau for Kids: His Life and Ideas, With 21 Activities. By Corinne Hosfeld Smith. Chicago Review Press, 2016.

 

   Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist, With Memorial Verses. By William Ellery Channing. 1873. New edition, enlarged, by Frank Sanborn, 1902. Available as a 1996 reprint.

 

 

 

   Henry D. Thoreau. By F. B. Sanborn. American Men of Letters series. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1882.

 

 
 

   Life of Henry David Thoreau. By Henry S. Salt. Bentley, 1890, 1896. Revised in 1908 but not printed. Newer paperback of that one: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

 

 

 

   Thoreau: His Home, Friends and Books. By Annie Russell Marble. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1902.

 

  

   Henry Thoreau: Bachelor of Nature. By Leon Bazalgette,. Translation by Van Wyck Brooks. Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1924.

 

 

   

   Thoreau. By Henry Seidel Canby. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939.

 

 

   Henry David Thoreau. By Joseph Wood Krutch. William Sloane Associates, 1948.

 

 

 

   My Friend My Friend: The Story of Thoreau’s Relationship with Emerson. By Harmon Smith. University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

 
  

   Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. By Jeffrey S. Cramer. Counterpoint, 2019.

 

 

 

   Henry Thoreau as Remembered by a Young Friend. By Edward W. Emerson. Originally published in 1917. Reprinted by Dover Publications.

 

 

 

   

   The Thoreau You Don’t Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Means. By Robert Sullivan. HarperCollins, 2009.

 

   The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond. By Michael Sims. Bloomsbury, 2014.

 

 

   Thoreau the Land Surveyor. By Patrick Chura. University Press of Florida, 2010.

 

 

   The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years. By Robert M. Thorson. Harvard University Press, 2017.

 

 

   The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and the Friendship that Freed the American Mind. Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

 

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