Walking - Henry David Thoreau

Walking is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. This edition is a paperback.

Key details

• Author: Henry David Thoreau
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 80
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 31 October 2019
• ISBN: 9780486836485

Synopsis

First delivered as a lecture in 1851 and later published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1862, shortly after Thoreau’s death, this impassioned piece considers the restorative power of time spent outdoors. It argues that walking in nature can feed the spirit, inspire reflection, and offer a kind of self-knowledge that is difficult to reach elsewhere.

Written against the backdrop of a changing nineteenth-century America, it proposes unhurried wanderings through fields and woods as a counterweight to social pressures. Often associated with the modern environmentalist movement, it continues to resonate with readers who feel distanced from the natural world, and it also touches on the relationship between mind, body and spirit.

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