Book : The Illustrated Walden Thoreau Bicentennial Edition -

-Titulo Original : The Illustrated Walden Thoreau Bicentennial Edition

-Fabricante :

TarcherPerigee

-Descripcion Original:

To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreaus birth and TarcherPerigees publication of Expect Great Things: The Life of Henry David Thoreau, here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the first illustrated volume of Thoreaus classic, as originally issued in 1897.In 1897, thirty-five years after Thoreaus death, Houghton Mifflin issued a two-volume Holiday Edition of Walden illustrated with thirty remarkable engravings, daguerreotypes, and period photographs. In 1902 the publisher collected the work into a single volume. Now, to mark the bicentennial of Thoreaus birth in 1817, this timeless landmark is reproduced with all of the original illustrations and the complete text of his mystical, practical, magisterial record of a life in the woods. About the Author Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was one of Americas greatest mystical and naturalist voices.