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Cape Cod . By: Henry David Thoreau: Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau.

Cape Cod . By: Henry David Thoreau: Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau.

Thoreau, Henry David

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1984034103
ISBN13: 9781984034106
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 20 2018
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.24 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience (originally published as Resistance to Civil Government), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and Yankee attention to practical detail.He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.[citation needed] Thoreau is sometimes referred to as an anarchist. Though Civil Disobedience seems to call for improving rather than abolishing government-I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better governmentthe direction of this improvement points toward anarchism: 'That government is best which governs not at all;' and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

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