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Excursions

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The anthology contains an introduction entitled "Biographical Sketch" in which fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a description of Thoreau. The book, other than R. W. Emerson's biography of Thoreau, contains nine of Thoreau's essays: Natural History of Massachusetts, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Winter Walk, The Succession of Forest Trees, Walking, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples, and Night and Moonlight. - (summary from Wikipedia.org)

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Nature

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Biographical Sketch by R.W. Emerson - Part I	PhyllisV	00:24:10
Play 02	Biographical Sketch by R.W. Emerson - Part II	PhyllisV	00:22:37
Play 03	Biographical Sketch by R.W. Emerson - Part III	PhyllisV	00:16:01
Play 04	Natural History of Massachusetts - Part I	PhyllisV	00:25:27
Play 05	Natural History of Massachusetts - Part II	PhyllisV	00:24:43
Play 06	Natural History of Massachusetts - Part III	PhyllisV	00:18:49
Play 07	A Walk to Wachusett - Part I	PhyllisV	00:22:40
Play 08	A Walk to Wachusett - Part II	PhyllisV	00:23:27
Play 09	The Landlord	PhyllisV	00:22:30
Play 10	A Winter Walk - Part I	PhyllisV	00:28:22
Play 11	A Winter Walk - Part II	PhyllisV	00:23:03
Play 12	The Succession of Forest Trees - Part I	PhyllisV	00:29:29
Play 13	The Succession of Forest Trees - Part II	PhyllisV	00:20:24
Play 14	Walking - Part I	PhyllisV	00:27:12
Play 15	Walking - Part II	PhyllisV	00:24:47
Play 16	Walking - Part III	PhyllisV	00:28:35
Play 17	Walking - Part IV	PhyllisV	00:21:41
Play 18	Autumnal Tints - Part I	PhyllisV	00:23:29
Play 19	Autumnal Tints - Part II	PhyllisV	00:22:40
Play 20	Autumnal Tints - Part III	PhyllisV	00:22:44
Play 21	Autumnal Tints - Part IV	PhyllisV	00:26:53
Play 22	Wild Apples - Part I	PhyllisV	00:25:48
Play 23	Wild Apples - Part II	PhyllisV	00:25:21
Play 24	Wild Apples - Part III	PhyllisV	00:24:25
Play 25	Night and Moonlight	PhyllisV	00:23:34

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