The Green Thoreau: America's First Environmentalist on Technology, Conservation, Livelihood, and More - Softcover

Thoreau, Henry David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608681432 ISBN 13: 9781608681433

Publisher: New World Library, 2012

Synopsis

Henry David Thoreau s countercultural voice was not popular in his lifetime and his ideas remain provocative today. Walden anticipated today s interest in simplicity and sustainability, and what he wrote about possessions and technology is fresh and powerful. He saw nature as teacher and companion and his in wildness is the preservation of the world could be the motto of contemporary green movements. His essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. and his journals have aided contemporary climate change scientists studying alterations near Thoreau s Massachusetts home. At turns passionate, funny, and profound, this collection serves as a compelling introduction or vivid reminder of why Thoreau is one of America s iconoclastic greats.

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"[Thoreau] took man's relation to nature and man's dilemma in society...beat all these matters together...and produced an original omelet from which people can draw nourishment on a hungry day."
-- E. B. White on Walden

About the Author

Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived for most of his life except for brief sojourns out of state and to Canada. Educated at Harvard, he returned home to Concord, and supported himself in diverse ways -- in the family pencil-making business, and as handyman, teacher, lecturer, and surveyor.

On July 4, 1845, Thoreau decided to move to Walden Pond, on the outskirts of Concord, where he built a cabin in the woods, remaining there for a little over two years. He recounted his experience in essential living in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, published in 1854, seven years after leaving Walden Pond.

Thoreau is not only one of the greatest American authors, but commands a major place in world literature as well; his works have been translated into virtually every modern language. He wrote many books and essays, in addition to his voluminous Journal from which he drew much of the material for his other works. Thoreau died in Concord of tuberculosis, on May 6, 1862.

Editor Carol Spenard LaRusso lives in Santa Rosa, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: New World Library
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1608681432
• ISBN 13: 9781608681433
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 144