Naturalist, essayist and early environmentalist, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was one for whom nature was a religion. One product of his two-year sojourn at the pond was this book - one of the great classics of American letters. Interwoven with accounts of Thoreau's daily life are meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics, expressed with clear-headed wisdom and remarkable beauty of style. Sobre o autor: THOREAU, HENRY DAVID Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an essayist, poet, philosopher, and anti-slavery activist. Among his other notable books are A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Civil Disobedience. He died of tuberculosis and he is buried in his family's plot near the graves of his friends Hawthorne, Alcott, Emerson, and Channing on Author's Ridge in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
