num_pages: 112
description: Best known for fleeing civilization to live in a cabin on Walden Pond, Thoreau was part of an exciting time in American philosophy. He was a protégé of famous poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, and his essay on civil disobedience influenced leaders such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. The book covers his childhood, education, and his own famous act of civil disobedience.
language: English
title: Henry David Thoreau: American Naturalist, Writer, and Transcendentalist
titlecomplete: Henry David Thoreau: American Naturalist, Writer, and Transcendentalist (Library of American Thinkers)
ratings_count: 1
series: Library of American Thinkers
publisher: Rosen Central