During his sojourn there, Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican war, for which he was jailed overnight. His two-year experience in a hut in Walden, on land owned by Emerson, resulted in the classic, Walden: Life in the Woods (1854). Becoming a Transcendentalist and good friend of Emerson, Thoreau lived the life of simplicity he advocated in his writings. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. It is cheerfully, musically earnest.Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for 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. I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. You feel like you’re right there in the woods with him. All this accompanied by Thoreau’s vivid observations of nature, the plants, animals and landscape – not to mention the ways and character of his Indian guide. It’s the classic canoeing trip: the rain showers, the instability of the canoe on open water when the wind whips up the waves, shooting through rapids and clambering over fallen trees on the portages… camping by the waterside, a dripping tent and nights disturbed by mosquitoes… cooking over fire, picking raspberries, waking to bird song at dawn… getting lost in the woods and suffering an upset stomach.
Think of our little eggshell of a canoe tossing across that great lake, a mere black speck to the eagle soaring above it!Ĭanoeing in the Wilderness by Henry David Thoreau By Jesse Lee Tucker via Wikimedia Commons In the summer of 1857, the American writer Henry David Thoreau – best known for his book Walden detailing his experiences of living in a log cabin for two years in the wild – went on a canoe trip in the still unspoilt regions of Maine, with a friend and an Indian guide from the reservation of Old Town.Ĭanoeing in the Wilderness is the recounting of this two-week journey, in the form of a diary.
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