Excursions
Henry David Thoreau (Author), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Editor), Sophia E. Thoreau (Editor)
First edition - first state - Excursions was collected from various sources by Thoreau's sister, Sophia E. Thoreau. It was published the year after Thoreau's death and includes a eulogy delivered at his funeral by Emerson, here included as a preface. After leaving Walden Pond, Thoreau became more of a naturalist, taking trips to Cape Cod and Canada and using his experiences as material for an article entitled "Excursion to Canada" in Putnam's Monthly in 1853. "He toured Cape Cod on foot late in 1849, spent a week in Canada in 1850, and went in 1853 on his second journey into Maine. Four of his posthumous books derive ... from these expeditions: Excursions (1863), The Maine Woods (1864), Cape Cod (1865), and A Yankee in Canada (1866)." - BAL 5236 - 2011
Print Book, English, 1863
Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1863