The Maine Woods - Journeys Through the Wilderness of New England - Paperback

Thoreau, Henry David: - Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1817. An American writer, naturalist, philosopher, surveyor, and social reformer, he became one of the central figures of the Transcendentalist movement. He studied at Harvard College and later worked as a teacher, lecturer, pencil maker, and land surveyor while devoting much of his life to writing and the close observation of nature.Thoreau is best known for Walden, his account of the two years, two months, and two days he spent living in a cabin he built near Walden Pond. His essay "Civil Disobedience" argued that individuals have a moral responsibility to resist unjust government and later influenced political and social reformers around the world. His journals, essays, and books reveal a lifelong concern with simplicity, personal freedom, environmental awareness, and the relationship between human beings and the natural world.In addition to Walden, Thoreau wrote A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, and The Maine Woods. He died in Concord in 1862 at the age of forty-four. Although his work received limited attention during his lifetime, he later came to be recognized as one of America's most influential writers and an important early voice for conservation, nonviolent resistance, and deliberate living.