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  • The Maine Woods

    Series series Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
    Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of those journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. It presents Thoreau's fullest account of the wilderness.The Maine Woods is classic Thoreau: a personal story of exterior and interior ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cape Cod

    Series series Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
    This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky--himself a resident of Cape Cod--this volume contains some of Thoreau's most beautiful writings.In the plants, animals, topography, weather, and people of Cape Cod, Thoreau finds "another world" ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 13 - Delphi Series Three
    For over a hundred and fifty years, the essays, poetry and journals of the leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau have won the admiration of readers, due to the author’s natural observation, symbolic meanings, poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity and practical detail. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete published works of Henry David Thoreau, with numerous illustrations, ... Read more

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  • Fishing Adventures on the Newfoundland Banks 1860

    by W V Wells ...
    A good description of a trip on the Rhody Carter out of Marblehead Massachusetts to the Grand Banks in search of Cod during the mid nineteenth century. ... Read more

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  • Thoreau: 5 books and 4 essays

    This file includes: A Week on the Concord and the Merrimack Rivers, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walden, Canoeing in the Wilderness, A Plea for Captain John Brown, Walking, Wild Apples, and Excursions, and Cape Cod. According to Wikipedia: "Henry David Thoreau (1817 1862) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, stage writer and ... Read more

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  • Genoa

    A Telling of Wonders

    by Paul Metcalf ...
    A legendary work of literary wizardry in which the author reckons with Christopher Columbus, America, myth, and his great-grandfather Herman Melville. First published in 1965, Genoa is Paul Metcalf’s literary masterpiece in which he attempts to purge the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, a storm-tossed Indiana attic becomes the ... Read more

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  • The Complete Henry David Thoreau

    Essays, Poems, Letters and Journals

    THE COMPLETE WORKS! Essays, Collections, Poetry, Translations, Letters, Journal and Biographical Sketch. The Ultimate Collection of Henry David Thoreau - In One Beautifully Formatted Volume! Henry David Thoreau is best known as one of the founding fathers of the 'Transcendentalist' movement, and for two written works; the collection 'Walden', and the essay 'Civil Disobedience'. However, Thoreau ... Read more

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  • Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam

    Transcribed for the First Time From the Original 1790 Manuscript

    When John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796—a bowdlerized edition "full of lies and nonsense"—Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century slave society, including graphic accounts of the worlds of both masters and slaves, it also contained vivid ... Read more

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  • The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale

    First-Person Accounts

    The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the SeaIn 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. ... Read more

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  • Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated)

    From Walden to the Maine Woods: simple living and wilderness explorations

    This carefully crafted ebook: "Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is a narrative of a 2 week boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts, down the Concord River to the Middlesex Canal, to the Merrimack River, up to Concord, New ... Read more

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  • Stedman's Surinam

    Life in an Eighteeth-Century Slave Society

    The famed account of 18th-century slavery in South America, "made more readable by moderate editorial changes . . . A well-accomplished abridgment" ( Colonial Latin American Historical Review).This abridgment of Richard and Sally Price's acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on John Gabriel Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the ... Read more

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  • Omoo

    A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

    Melville’s continuing adventures in the South SeasFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville’s personal experiences as a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD