Via the Walden Woods Project, you can download a pdf of the essay as it originally appeared. Home The Essential Henry David Thoreau Collection: 4 Books in 1 Walden Civil Disobedience A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Walking (Paperback). The text presented here is that of “Walking,” The Atlantic Monthly, vol.

The connection between wildness and freedom is seen throughout Thoreau’s writing. These words are found in his lecture Walking, which he delivered numerous times, beginning in 1851. Walking Author: Henry David Thoreau Summary: One of the best books by America's first nature writer. Henry David Thoreau tells us that all good things are wild and free. ” (Walter Harding, The Days of Henry Thoreau, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962: 286). One morning in early October 1849, Henry David Thoreau peered through the rainstreaked window of a stagecoach as it rolled along a sandy, rutted road on the. 4.95 Other new and collectible from 4.95. But just before his death, he put the two back together again and sold the essay to the Atlantic Monthly where it was published in the issue of June 1862.

It was to become one of his favorite lectures, one that he repeated many times, working it over and adding to it each time until eventually it became large enough to break into two, the new part entitled “Walking.” Because he knew the market for it would vanish once it reached print, he was careful not to have either part published in his lifetime.

On April 23, 1851, Thoreau “tried out a new lecture, entitled ‘The Wild,’ on the Concord Lyceum and on May 31 repeated it in Worcester.

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