Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction Land of the Grass-Ground River 3
5. Part one The Making of Thoreau
6. Chapter one Concord Sons and Daughters 23
7. Chapter two Higher Learning from Concord to Harvard (1826–1837) 50
8. Chapter three Transcendental Apprentice (1837–1841) 82
9. Chapter four “Not till We Are Lost” (1842–1844) 124
10. Part two The Making of Walden
11. Chapter five “Walden, Is It You?” (1845–1847) 181
12. Chapter six A Writer’s Life (1847–1849) 232
13. Chapter seven From Concord to Cosmos: Thoreau’s Turn to Science (1849–1851) 273
14. Chapter eight The Beauty of Nature, the Baseness of Men (1851–1854) 313
15. Part three Success ions
16. Chapter nine Walden-on- Main (1854–1857) 359
17. Chapter ten Wild Fruits (1857–1859) 404
18. Chapter eleven A Constant New Creation (1860–1862) 457
19. Acknowledgments 501
20. Abbreviations 507
21. Notes 511
22. Selected Bibliography 571
23. Index 587