Biographies & Autobiographies, Literary

A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851

Name: A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851
Author: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 9780140390858

by Henry David Thoreau, H. Daniel Peck (Editor), H. Daniel Peck

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Synopsis

Thoreau's journal of 1851 reveals profound ideas and observations in the making, including wonderful writing on the natural history of Concord.

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About the Author, Henry David Thoreau

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live," Henry David Thoreau once observed. The American poet, essayist and philosopher certainly held himself to that standard -- living out the tenets of Transcendentalism, recounting the experience in his masterpiece, Walden (1854), and passionately advocating human rights and civil liberties in the famous essay, Civil Disobedience (1849).