{"product_id":"walden-isbn-9780807024102","title":"Walden","description":"\u003cb\u003eA deluxe edition of Henry David Thoreau’s groundbreaking environmentalist masterpiece, including an introduction and annotations by renowned social and environmental critic Bill McKibben \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Beacon Classics edition, featuring spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind, a love of nature, and a longing for simplicity and contemplation. Recounting the author’s reflections on simple living after a period he spent in a small cabin he built near Walden Pond, the book places Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and spiritual seer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBill McKibben offers both an intelligent and captivating introduction and a body of insightful annotations to Thoreau’s original edition. He addresses two philosophical questions posed by Thoreau: “How much is enough?” and, “How do I know what I want?”, to draw meaningful connections between Thoreau's writing and our lived experience in the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis beautiful hardcover edition is more accessible and relevant than ever in an age of technological change and ecological crisis.Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau's \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e as the gospel of the present moment. --Robert D. Richardson, Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eHenry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[Thoreau] says so many pithy and brilliant things, and offers so many piquant, and, we may add, so many just, comments on society as it is, that this book is well worth the reading, both for its actual contents and its suggestive capacity.' --A. P. Peabody, \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review,\u003c\/i\u003e 1854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[\u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e] still seems to me the best youth's companion yet written by an American, for it carries a solemn warning against the loss of one's valuables, it advances a good argument for traveling light and trying new adventures, it rings with the power of powerful adoration, it contains religious feeling without religious images, and it steadfastly refuses to record bad news.' --E. B. White, \u003ci\u003eYale Review,\u003c\/i\u003e 1954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau's \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e as the gospel of the present moment.' -Robert D. Richardson, Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eHenry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003eHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a writer and philosopher as well as a naturalist. \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e is considered his masterpiece. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBill McKibben is the author of \u003ci\u003eEnough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Missing Information.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives with his family in the Adirondack Mountains.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233825501413,"sku":"NP9780807024102","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807024102.jpg?v=1767743555","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/walden-isbn-9780807024102","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}