Henry David Thoreau: A Life
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (949 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06WWD62D1 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 283 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"wonderfully to life" according to Joe Peterson. This is a spectacularly well written, and engaging biography that effortlessly brings Henry David Thoreau, and the natural world that gave birth to his ideas, wonderfully to life. Highly recommended for anyone interested in this intensely curious man and original thinker who sought to preserve wildness against the unbridled incursions brought on by industrialization. One of the best biographies I've ever read.. A Thoreau I Never Knew The best kind of biography, enfolding all the tributaries of a life like Thoreau's. I've had my private problems with him over A Thoreau I Never Knew HannahHinchman The best kind of biography, enfolding all the tributaries of a life like Thoreau's. I've had my private problems with him over 40 years, I realize now because I didn't understand the setting or context of his life, and also because I believed some of the myths about him. Now I feel that I know him, through the prisms of his beloved friends and family, and also knowing now the larger world-view he was pioneering. He was a serious scientist, in the best way, and, to my surprise, a convivial person, much loved by children.. 0 years, I realize now because I didn't understand the setting or context of his life, and also because I believed some of the myths about him. Now I feel that I know him, through the prisms of his beloved friends and family, and also knowing now the larger world-view he was pioneering. He was a serious scientist, in the best way, and, to my surprise, a convivial person, much loved by children.. W said A Great Biography. This well written and impeccably researched book is a must read for any Thoreau lover. Highly recommended. You will admire Thoreau even more.
Thoreau's political engagement isn't exactly news, but Walls foregrounds it vividly. The details are sometimes wonderful. It is extraordinary how much there was in Thoreau to support this interpretation, and part of the power of Walls's book is how she traces these liberal and humane preoccupations to the radicalism of his family and of Concord’s intellectual life.". "Laura Dassow Walls has written an engaging, sympathetic, and subtly learned biography that mounts a strong case for Thoreau's importance. Walls's Thoreau is truly a man for all seasons, a person who, in many ways, is a 21st-century liberal’s idea of our best self: pro-environmental, antiracist, anti-imperialist, feminist, reformist, spiritual but not religious
We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. “Walden. His attempt to “live deliberately” in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his brief experiment in living at Walden Pond. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated? Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of