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Excursions (Unabridged) by Henry David Thoreau

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Excursions (Unabridged)

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by Henry David Thoreau

Length 9 hours 56 minutes

Language English

Narrators Scotty Taylor, Adam Sires, Rebecca Carroll & Ernestine Adams

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About the author

Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The anthology contains an introduction entitled "Biographical Sketch" in which fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a description of Thoreau. The book, other than R. W. Emerson's biography of Thoreau, contains nine of Thoreau's essays: Natural History of Massachusetts, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Winter Walk, The Succession of Forest Trees, Walking, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples, and Night and Moonlight.

Short Stories Literary Criticism

Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist,[3] Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings