American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

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The Thoreau you don't know : the father of nature writers on the importance of cities, finance, and fooling around / Robert Sullivan.

The environmental imagination : Thoreau, nature writing, and the formation of American culture / Lawrence Buell.

Thoreau's sexuality / Walter Harding.

Wild fruits : Thoreau's rediscovered last manuscript / Henry David Thoreau ; edited and introduced by Bradley P. Dean ; illustrations by Abigail Rorer.

Henry David Thoreau : cycles and psyche / by Michael Sperber.

Thoreau's wildflowers / Henry David Thoreau ; illustrated by Barry Moser ; edited by Geoff Wisner.

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Henry David Thoreau

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Wild fruits : Thoreau's rediscovered last manuscript / Henry David Thoreau ; edited and introduced by Bradley P. Dean ; illustrations by Abigail Rorer.

Thoreau's wildflowers / Henry David Thoreau ; illustrated by Barry Moser ; edited by Geoff Wisner.