SPOTLIGHT
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Henry David Thoreau was an American author, pacifist, tax
resister and philosopher who is famous for his auto-biographical
work Walden on living simply amongst nature and also Civil Disobedience concerning resistance to civil government. He was a lifelong
abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive
Slave Law.
His most lasting contributions were in extensive writings
on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the
methods and findings of ecology and environmental history,
two sources of modern environmentalism.
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WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau is the first release in the Smink Works
Books
Essential Reading Collection
- Read Thoreau's life-philosophy based on his time spent
at Walden Pond.
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