Collected here are an assortment of Thoreau writings displaying his view of nature, life and living. From Walking and Walden to Civil Disobedience, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and more America's first nature writer awakens the senses and soul. Henry David Thoreau was an author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. | Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau, Paperback | Indigo Chapters