Nature and Walking
- ISBN-10
- 080709532X
- ISBN-13
- 9780807095324
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-03-06
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Authors
- Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Description
Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
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