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Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)
Walden Or Life in the Woods - Dover Thrift Editions
Author: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN-13: 9780486284958
ISBN-10: 0486284956
Publication Date: 4/12/1995
Pages: 224
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 35 ratings
Publisher: Dover Publications
Book Type: Paperback
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One of America's great writers explains how to live the simple life and enjoy it.
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From the cover, "Naturalist, essayist and early environmentalist, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was one for whon nature was a religion. In communing with the natural world, he wished to "live, deliberatley, to front only the essential facts of life, and...learn what it had to teach." Toward that end Thoreau built a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond in the spring of 1845-on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson-outside Concord, Massachusetts. There he observed nature, farmed, built fences, surveyed and made entries in his journal. The product of his two-year sojourn at the pond was this book-one of the great classics of American letters."
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This book speaks for itself.