The adventures of Henry Thoreau : a young man's unlikely path to Walden Pond
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New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
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First U.S. edition.
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x, 372 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.3 THOREA 2014
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.3 THOREA 2014
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Format
Book
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-360) and index.
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From the publisher. Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism. Working from nineteenth-century letters and diaries by Thoreau’s family, friends, and students, Sims charts Henry’s course from his time at Harvard through the years he spent living in a cabin beside Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Sims uncovers a previously hidden Thoreau-- the rowdy boy reminiscent of Tom Sawyer, the sarcastic college iconoclast, the devoted son who kept imitating his beloved older brother’s choices in life. Thoreau was deeply influenced by his parents-- his father owned a pencil factory in Concord, his mother was an abolitionist and social activist-- and by Ralph Waldo Emerson, his frequent mentor. Sims relates intimate, telling moments in Thoreau’s daily life-- in Emerson’s library; teaching his neighbor and friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, to row a boat; exploring the natural world and Native American culture; tutoring Emerson’s nephew on Staten Island and walking the streets of New York in the hope of launching a writing career.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Sims, M. (2014). The adventures of Henry Thoreau: a young man's unlikely path to Walden Pond (First U.S. edition.). Bloomsbury.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Sims, Michael, 1958-. 2014. The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond. Bloomsbury.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Sims, Michael, 1958-. The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond Bloomsbury, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Sims, Michael. The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond First U.S. edition., Bloomsbury, 2014.

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