The Maine Woods
Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author's transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place not even scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world. In Maine he comes in contact with rocks, trees, wind and solid earth as though he were witness to the creation itself. Of equal importance, The Maine Woods depicts Thoreau's contact with the American Indians and depicts his tribal education of learning the language, customs, and mor…
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- ISBN: 978-0-88240-927-6
- EAN: 9780882409276
- Produktnummer: 20536789
- Verlag: West Margin Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 244 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 843 KB
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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
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