The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

by Michael Sims

Book Overview

Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism.

Working from nineteenth-century letters and diaries by Thoreau's family, friends, and students, Sims charts Henry's course from his time at Harvard through the years he spent living...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620401959
• ISBN13: 9781620401958
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.5"