Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays Hardback edition by Henry D.
Some have thought that the first human pair were tempted by its fruit. Thoreau the thinker, observer, wanderer, and inquiring naturalist?all emerge in this distinctive composite picture of the economic, natural, and spiritual communities that left their marks on one of our most important early environmentalists. The apple-tree has been celebrated by the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and Scandinavians. In the essays themselves, readers will see how Thoreau melded conventions of natural history writing with elements of two popular literary forms?travel writing and landscape writing?to explore concerns ranging from America's westward expansion to the figural dimensions of scientific facts and phenomena. Rossi also shows how these writings relate to Thoreau's life and career as both writer and naturalist: his readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Darwin his failed bid for commercial acceptance of his work and his pivotal encounter with the utter wildness of the Maine woods. William Rossi's introduction puts the essays in the context of Thoreau's other major works, both chronologically and intellectually.
First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood became increasingly urbanized and industrialized. 'In college, I first read Henry David Thoreaus essay Wild Apples in a book of his collected works and it resonated with me.
This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden.
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