Walking: A Profound and Humorous Ode to the Simple Art That Awakens the Senses and Soul (Little Books of Wisdom) - Softcover

Thoreau, Henry David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062511130 ISBN 13: 9780062511133

Verlag: HarperOne, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

A meandering ode to the simple act and accomplished art of taking a walk. Profound and humorous, companionable and curmudeonly, Walking, by America's first nature writer, is your personal and portable guide to the activity that, like no other, awakens the senses and the soul to the "absolute freedom and wildness" of nature.

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Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He spent time as a school teacher after attending Harvard College but was dismissed for his refusal to administer corporal punishment. In 1845, wanting to write his first book, he moved to Walden Pond and built his cabin on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was during his time at Walden that Thoreau was imprisoned briefly for not paying taxes; this experience became the basis for his well-known essay "Civil Disobedience." He died of tuberculosis in 1862 at the age of 44.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HarperOne
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0062511130
• ISBN 13: 9780062511133
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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