books.google.com - From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of both his interior life and his monumental...http://books.google.com/books/about/Journal.html?id=DGDVwMkrrhoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareJournal