Excursions

"Presents newly edited texts of nine essays--including some of Thoreau's most popular and engaging works--drawing from his writing career between 1842 and 1862. The collection highlights Thoreau's early use of themes and approaches that recur throughout his work, including explorations of internal and external geography."--Times Higher Education "Students of textual editing should study this production as a model of the meticulous layers of investigation required to reach the highest standards of their craft. Thanks to Moldenhauer and the many others who assisted with this work, scholars and general readers now have, at long last, a critical text of Thoreau's beloved nature essays, a text that reproduces as closely as possible Thoreau's authorial intentions."--Laura Dassow Walls, New England Quarterly "We are grateful to Moldenhauer and Princeton University Press for their continuing dedication to providing modern readers with editions of Thoreau's writings that are sound, beautifully-produced and enduring pieces of scholarship in their own right."--Francois Specq, Transatlantica "Because of Moldenhauer's hard work, we know, in so far as it can be known, that when we read his text, we are reading Thoreau. The text is pure Thoreau, but Moldenhauer deserves a world of credit for making it what it is."--Robert DeMaria, Amherst Magazine "These essays are bound to have a growing impact on American culture. It is a pleasure to have them in this historically informative and scrupulously edited new edition."--David M. Robinson, Thoreau Society Bulletin

Joseph J. Moldenhauer is the Mody C. Boatright Regents Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin.

Natural History of Massachusetts 3 A Walk to Wachusett 29 The Landlord 47 A Winter Walk 55 A Yankee in Canada 79 An Address on the Succession of Forest Trees 165 Walking 185 Autumnal Tints 223 Wild Apples 261 EDITORIAL APPENDIX Index 293 Notes on Illustrations 315 Acknowledgments 317 Short Titles 324 Library Symbols 327 Historical Introduction 330 Textual Introduction 364 Headnotes, Textual Notes, and Tables Natural History of Massachusetts 390 A Walk to Wachusett 403 The Landlord 419 A Winter Walk 425 A Yankee in Canada 471 An Address on the Succession of Forest Trees 544 Walking 561 Autumnal Tints 601 Wild Apples 633 End-of-Line Hyphenation 647