Henry David Thoreau

A Yankee in Canada (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A YANKEE IN CANADA is Henry Thoreau's description of his excursion into the French-Canadian province of Quebec in the fall of 1850. Although he later remarked that what he "got by going to Canada was a cold," this book is fascinating account of the great American writer's culture shock experienced during his only international experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781943328284
• Artikelnr.: 49554277

Autorenporträt

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, 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.