In Wildness is the Preservation of the World

In Wildness is a vintage classic that pairs passages by writer Henry David Thoreau alongside images by photographer Eliot Porter. Porter and the Sierra Club founder, David Brower, first published this bestselling, long-out-of-print classic monograph in 1962 and it has been often referred to as “the very first coffee-table book.” Although Porter and thoreau lived a century apart, their work beautifully exists side by side in this beloved book that advocates for the preservation of the natural environment.

ELIOT PORTER (1901–1990) was an iconic American photographer, most often associated with his outstanding large-format colour photographs of the natural world. HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817–1862) was an American essayist, poet and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is beloved especially for his classic book, Walden.