Henry David Thoreau

This acclaimed biography captures the inspiring life and philosophy of an influential American thinker: “a moving portrait of a brilliant, complex man” ( The New York Times ). Henry David Thoreau’s attempt to “live deliberately” in the woods outside his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, has inspired individualists since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his brief experiment in living at Walden Pond. A member of the intellectual circle centered on his ne