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          Walls traces the full arc of Thoreau's life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and....

          David Thoreau, better known as Henry David Thoreau, was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, and naturalist.

        1. David Thoreau, better known as Henry David Thoreau, was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, and naturalist.
        2. Henry David Thoreau Collection: Walden, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walking, Wild Apples.
        3. Walls traces the full arc of Thoreau's life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and.
        4. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and.
        5. Henry Salt's excellent biography of Thoreau helped popularize HDT's thought in Europe.

          6. Walden

          1854 book by Henry David Thoreau

          This article is about the book by Henry David Thoreau. For other uses, see Walden (disambiguation).

          Walden (; first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an 1854 book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau.

          The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance.[2]

          Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.

          Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the co