San Antonio College Library

Provides a biography of nineteenth-century American writer Henry David Thoreau, an original critical analysis of his works, two other significant critical essays, a Thoreau chronology, and primary and secondary bibliographies.

This is the book that commanded America's attention--and spearheaded the fight to save the cradle of the American environmental movement. Filled with moving, personal essays by concerned celebrities and thinkers, edited by Don Henley and Dave Marsh, it is a call to arms for anyone who cares about the environment and the future of the earth.

This educational documentary introduces Thoreau's timeless and provocative ideas in a 21st Century context. It includes interviews with historian Howard Zinn, Daniel Ellsberg and noted linguistics expert Noam Chomsky, along with other individuals who forthrightly explain how they have learned to cope in today's modern world.

Henry David Thoreaus Journal was his lifes work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own rightone of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday environment, the revolving seasons, and the changing self. It is a treasure trove of some of the finest prose in English and, for those acquainted with it, its prismatic pages exercise a hypnotic...