About the Book: Walden and Civil Disobedience
Thoreaus classic treatises on self-sufficiency and civil disobedience, now in a
beautiful gift edition for the Union Square and Co. Signature Clothbound
Editions line.
In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a cabin in the woods at Walden Pond to
record a philosophical experiment in living: to simplify his life, to support
himself entirely by his own labor, and to draw spiritual sustenance from his
surroundings. The result: Walden: or, Life in the Woods (1854).
In 1846, Thoreau refused to pay a mandated poll tax, refusing to support a
government that protected slavery and had