"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. "
#OTD in 1854.
American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau publishes his memoir Walden.
Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
Walden at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/205