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Konsten att vandra och andra essäer samlar några av Henry David Thoreau s mest inflytelserika texter, där läsaren får möta honom som ekolog, politisk filosof och poet. Thoreau, en av Amerikas mest ikoniska tänkare, utforskar här en skarp civilisat...

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"' År 1845 byggde sig Thoreau en stuga vid tjärnen Walden nära Concord i Massachusetts. Han levde där nära naturen i över två år och hade under tiden få kontakter med civilisationen. Skildringen av det enkla och oberoende livet i skogarna är ...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITS In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Wa...

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A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreaus classic treatise on man and nature. Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the ...

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First delivered as a lecture in 1851, “Walking” is the seminal work on Transcendental philosophy by American author and essayist Henry David Thoreau. Sometimes referred to as “The Wild”, it was Thoreau’s favorite spee...

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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) anfäktar i denna gamla stridsskrift individens rätt att göra uppror mot massans totala brist på civilt kurage. I Thoreaus tid och rum rörde det sig om slaveri och det då pågående amerikanska anfallskriget mot Mexiko...

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Henry D. Thoreau's classic A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is published now as a new paperback edition and includes an introduction by noted writer John McPhee. This work--unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of C...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and ...

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"Walden" is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The story is detailed in its accounts of Thoreau's day-to-day activities, observations, and undertakings to surv...

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Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics wit...

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To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth and TarcherPerigee's publication of Expect Great Things: The Life of Henry David Thoreau, here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the first illustrated volume of Thoreau's classic, as origina...

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I modern och oavkortad översättning av Peter Handberg. År 1845 byggde sig Thoreau en stuga vid tjärnen Walden nära Concord i Massachusetts. Han levde där nära naturen i över två år och hade under tiden få kontakter med civilisationen. Skildringen ...

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"Om en man vandrar i skogarna halva dagarna för kärlek till dem och för att på lite avstånd betrakta sina medmänniskor med opartiskt öga, uppfattas han som en dagdrivare; men om han tillbringar hela dagen som spekulant och låter hugga ned sko...

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"For I believe that climate does thus react on man as there is something in the mountain air that feeds the spirit and inspires. Henry David Thoreau's Walking began as a lecture in 1851 and ultimately appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in ...

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In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classi...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics."e;I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach...

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Together for the first time, classic essays on how and when to disobey the government from two of the greatest thinkers in our literature As we grapple with how to respond to emerging threats against democracy, Library of America brings together f...

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One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau's daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-relian...

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"Eftersom jag önskade att få en bättre utblick än jag förut haft över havet, som vi fått lära, täcker mer än två tredjedelar av jordklotet, men som en människa bosatt några kilometer inåt land kanske aldrig ens skymtar, lika litet som hon ser till...

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Disgusted by slavery and the Mexican War, Thoreau gave lectures on, "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government," which became the basis for this 1849 essay Civil Disobedience originally titled, "Resistance to...

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The ideal book of portable wisdom from America's quintessential nature writer. Thoreau's celebrated essay shows how anyone can more fully appreciate nature's wonders by "sauntering" in tranquillity with senses wide open.

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Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky--himself a resident of Cape Cod--this volume contains some of Thoreau's most beautiful writings. In the plants, animals, topography, weather, and people of Cape Cod, he finds "anot...

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With Abnaki guides, Thoreau climbed Mt. Katahdin and hiked deep into the Maine woods to places where one "might live and die and never hear of the United States". His accurate, evocative descriptions still reflect his belief that man him...

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These two pieces are an account of Thoreau's two-year stay at Walden Pond near Concord in Massachusetts. The first piece concerns the developing and testing of his transcendental philosophy of personal freedom, individuality, self reliance and mat...

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The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights t...

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`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Wal...

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`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Wal...

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"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each." Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating...

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The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars "Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book."-Joel Porte, author of Conscio...

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The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book.Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Cu...

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