Each walk someone takes can be seen as a sort of spiritual journey, and can lead the walker to their own form of holy land, even if it is just peace of mind. Thoreau claims that instead of this meaning someone is a vagabond wandering aimlessly, it could show that every walk is a crusade on its own. One possible origin of the word comes from vagabonds who claimed they were going to the holy land, in order to receive charity. He describes possibilities of where the term "saunterer" came from, and through this shows possibilities of why some people walk. The jacket paper will be handmade at Gaspereau Press.Thoreau claims that he has not met that many people who truly appreciate walking. The numbered edition (150 copies) will be bound into a paper cover and enfolded in a letterpress-printed jacket. The sheets will be sewn into blocks and offered in two states. The text of this book will be typeset in Cartier Book and hand printed from photopolymer plates on Hahnemühle Biblio paper making 96 pages trimmed to 4.5 × 7 inches. The book is illustrated with three original wood engravings by Wesley Bates.
It has been edited by Andrew Steeves with annotations which provide the sources of, and context for, Thoreau’s many quotations and allusions. This Gaspereau Press edition is based on the text Thoreau prepared for publication in Atlantic Monthly shortly before his death in 1862. Thoreau seems to have considered the essay a turning point in his writing, calling it “a sort of introduction to all that I may write hereafter.” Beginning with the chief characteristics of a saunter and a lament for those of his neighbours stuck indoors and in town, Thoreau then turns to the matter of choosing a direction and, once he has set off, speaks to the quality of the wilderness in his country, the expression of wilderness and wildness in literature, and the process of learning, among other things. It is a treatise inspired by the author’s habit of working in the mornings and devoting the afternoons to local explorations, thinking, observation and exercise-that is, walking. Written in 1851 by one of America’s most influential thinkers, “Walking, or the Wild” was a lecture Henry David Thoreau delivered frequently throughout the 1850s.
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