num_pages: 464
description: The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full nineteenth century context.
language: English
title: Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
titlecomplete: Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
characters: Henry David Thoreau
genres: Nature, History, Philosophy, American History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Literature, American, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 432
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award
publisher: University of California Press