Download or read book Excursions (1863) by Henry D. Thoreau (Original Classics) written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.