The Portable Thoreau Book

The Portable Thoreau Introduction by the Editor Chronology Natural History of Massachusetts, 1842
A Winter Walk, 1843
The Maine Woods, 1848
The Wilds of the Penobscot Life in the Wilderness

Civil Disobedience, 1849
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1849
Poems
I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied In the Busy Streets, Domains of Trade I Knew a Man by Sight Lately, Alas, I Knew a Gentle Boy Each More Melodious Note I Hear Independence Not Unconcerned Wachusett Rears His Head My Friends, Why Should We Live Low in the Eastern Sky Great Friend Fog Brother Where Dost Thou Dwell This Is My Carnac, Whose Unmeasured Dome Love Equals Swift and Slow Though All the Fates Should Prove Unkind Manhood Between the Traveler and the Setting Sun Nature

A Yankee in Canada, 1853
Concord to Montreal

Walden, 1854
Economy Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Reading Sounds Solitude Visitors The Bean Field The Village The Ponds Baker Farm Higher Laws Brute Neighbors Housewarming Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors Winter Animals The Pond in Winter Spring Conclusion

Journal, 1858
Walking, 1862
Life without Principle, 1863

Cape Cod, 1864
The Wellfleet Oysterman

The Last Days of John Brown, 1860
Epilogue by the Editor Further Reading