Four new (old) titles suited to woodland walks

 

The latest from my press, Monongahela Books: four early American classics for woodland walking. At roughly 4x7, they slip snugly into the pocket of a heavy overshirt or over-the-shoulder satchel. Emerson’s essay “Nature,” Thoreau’s “Wild Apples” & “Walking,” and the only known biographical sketch of “Johnny Appleseed” by one who knew him -- subjects steeped in the climate of an earlier America and suited to outdoor reverie and rumination.

These are lightweight, bare-bones editions, free of backcover blurbs or scholarly clutter. (Not that commentary and notes are without their uses, but such fatter editions belong on the shelf, available for consultation, and not weighing down a hiker’s pack).

Two are currently available for purchase, and two are in the works. Each fits easily in the hand, while taking one’s repose beneath a spreading oak.