Ralph Waldo Emerson

First published in 1863, 'Excursions' is a collection of essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. It contains nine essays in total, as well as a biographical sketch of Thoreau by fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. The essays are: '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'....

Includes Emerson's complete essays and representative selections from his poems, addresses, sermons, sketches, and more.

Presents streamlined versions of nineteenth-century American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays, along with a biographical essay on Emerson and an introduction that explains his ideas.