Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau, Collection

Publisher Marketing: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 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, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs. In this book: Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Walking Cape Cod A Plea for Captain John Brown Wild Apples A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Excursions Excursions and Poems Review Citations: Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2001 pg. 78 (EAN 9781883011956, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 365 (EAN 9781883011956, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 645 (EAN 9781883011956, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 477 (EAN 9781883011956, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 822 (EAN 9781883011956, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 588 (EAN 9781883011956, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 994 (EAN 9781883011956, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Thoreau, Henry David Henry David Thoreau (Concord 1817-1862) va ser un pedagog, filosof, poeta, naturalista i pensador nord-america, fill d'un fabricant de llapis, i amic i protegit del filosof i home de lletres Ralph Waldo Emerson que el va influir en l'adopcio de les idees transcendentalistes, una versio americana de l'idealisme romantic. Es va retirar en solitari durant dos anys, dos mesos i dos dies entre 1845 i 1847 a una cabana als boscos de Walden Pond, de la que en va reeixir la seva obra mes famosa, Walden (1854) que condensa les experiencies i reflexions d'aquells dos anys retirat entre la naturalesa.