Walking/Wild Apples

Description

This Henry David Thoreau volume is a compilation of two classic Thoreau titles, ‘Walking’ and ‘Wild Apples.’ Walking, or sometimes referred to as ‘The Wild’, is based on a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. Wild Apples, another nature classic is subtitled, ‘The History of the Apple Tree’ 

Walking, or sometimes referred to as ‘The Wild’, is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures. ‘Walking’ was first published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly after his death in 1862.