The most uplifting passages from Walden, from the essay "Civil Disobedience" and from the Journal of Thoreau's later years. Van Anglen distills Thoreau's massive body of work into 750 of his most profound, acute ideas on subjects ranging from the ecology movement to English literature. Booknews In excerpts ranging from short sentences to long paragraphs, distills the essence of Thoreau's thinking on such topics as ambition, America, birds, the inhabitants of Cape Cod, Christianity, menus, Native Americans, self-knowledge, war, and transcendentalism. Annotated. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.