Annotated edition of Thoreau's journal, expressing his philosophy of life and observations of nature, drawn from his solitary sojourn of two years in a cabin on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.
Thoreau in nonviolent defiance, refused to pay taxes to the governmentof the United States, which was engaged in the Mexican War without a declaration of war or congressional approval. This action caused him to be imprisoned.
A fully annotated edition of Henry David Thoreau's classic work "Walden", correcting errors and omissions from earlier editions of "Walden" and providing notes on the biographical, historical, and geographical contexts of Thoreau's life.
