The Selected Works of Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau

Inspired by the Rocky Mountain Land Library (as we are every single day), today is all about apples. This 1975 edition of The Selected Works of Thoreau (Houghton Mifflin Company Boston) is a weighty collection of Thoreau’s writings, with text unchanged from its original Cambridge Edition in 1937 — the former simply renewing, enlarging and darkening the text, and freshening its introductory and biographical notes.

We picked this up in the Pitlochry Station Bookshop during our time at the John Muir Trust visitor centre, what feels like a lifetime ago. This mouthwatering page might be difficult to read when our time spent in the gradually warming outdoors is so limited — but hopefully by October or November, when the apples are highly seasoned, we can walk with leaves and apples crunching.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1872) was an American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, regarded as one of the classic American nature writer. Best known for his story of simple living in natural surroundings, Walden (1854).