Walden; Or, Life in the Woods

Walden; Or, Life in the Woods

Walden; Or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau

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Editorial:
Ross Bolton
Año de edición:
1854
Materia
Antologías (no poéticas)
ISBN:
9781945644153
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Nature was a study for essayist, naturalist, and environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817–62). He communed from his cabin on Walden Pond, owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson, to “live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and… learn what it had to teach.”Walden is landmark book on self-reliance and simple living.

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