WALKING is an essay written by Henry David Thoreau. He considered it one of his seminal works, so much so, that he once wrote of the lecture, âI regard this as a sort of introduction to all that I may write hereafter.â...
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is both a remembrance of an intensely spiritual moment in Henry David Thoreauâs life and a memoriam to his older brother who accompanied him on the trip shortly before his death. Full of fascina...
Collected here are nineteen essays by Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was on of Americaâs best known and most influential writers. His work has helped shape the American Discourse and had a lasting effect on the environmental movement in...
With 18 Full Color Photos! Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details Thoreauâs sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Walde...
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden,...
Civil Disobedience argues that citizens should not permit their governments to overrule their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice .