Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) is the author of dozens of books and essays, including On Civil Disobedience and The Maine Woods.
In 1839, two years after graduating from Harvard, Henry David Thoreau and his older brother, John, took a boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John’s sudden death in 1842, Thoreau began to prep... SEE MORE