June 21st Father's Day! All the best gift ideas.  Shop NowJune 21st Father's Day! All the best gift ideas.  Shop Now

The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition

Hardcover
$25.00
Promotion message icon
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.Learn More
In stock
This item is currently out of stock online.
Free standard shipping on orders over $60
Select a store to view item availability.
To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth and TarcherPerigee's publication of Expect Great Things: The Life of Henry David Thoreau, here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the first illustrated volume of Thoreau's classic, as originally issued in 1897.

In 1897, thirty-five years after Thoreau's death, Houghton Mifflin issued a two-volume "Holiday Edition" of Walden illustrated with thirty remarkable engravings, daguerreotypes, and period photographs. In 1902 the publisher colle...

From the B&N Reads Blog

7 Books That Celebrate the Joys of Being Alone

7 Books That Celebrate the Joys of Being Alone

If you think Sartre was right on when he wrote “hell is other people,” or if you could just use a little solitude this holiday season, in between the office parties and festive traffic jams, you might enjoy these seven books that celebrate the joys of being alone. Back To Top
Read More