Excursions (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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By Henry David Thoreau

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Jul 26, 2011
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324 pages
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BookAnnex
ISBN-13
9781411460577

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These nine essays, among Thoreau’s most popular writings, grew out of his daily saunters around Concord, Massachusetts. Published only after his death, these early works document Thoreau’s developing eye for natural description. Includes “Walking,” “A Natural History of Massachusetts,” “A Winter Walk,” “Autumnal Tints,” “Wild Apples” and “Night and Moonlight,” among others.


Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for 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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