American. Author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state (Source: Wikipedia, accessed 14/09/2011 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoreau).
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Episodes in another dimension
Date: 2008
From: Hammond, Bryn, 1923-2008 : Literary papers
Reference: MSDL-1437
Description: Literary draft comprising 11 chapters of Hammond's unpublished manuscript `Episodes in another dimension'. Theme of the work is biographical portraits of well known fisherman and how all fisherman are "of a singularly special kind". As examples Hammond's chapters include biographies of Zane Grey, Henry Thoreau, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, Sven Berlin, Negley Farson, Jonathan Raban and William Scrope. Quantity: 11 Electronic document(s).