Henry Thoreau: A Life of The Mind /
Robert D. Richardson Jr.; Designed and illustrated by Barry Moser
- Berkeley University of California Press 1986
- 455 p.
Includes Index
1837 Return to Concord -- 1838-1840 The ethical imperatives to transcendentalism -- 1841-1843 American reformation -- 1843-1845 The road to Walden Pond -- 1846-1849 The profession of letters -- 1849-1851 The language of the leopard -- 1851-1852 New books, new worlds -- 1852-1854 Walden, or the triumph of the organic -- 1854-1862 The economy of nature.
Offers a view of Thoreau's life and his extraordinary achievement in their nineteenth-century context.