Where I Lived, and What I Lived for -- Henry David Thoreau

The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world.<p>Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement--a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simple life within their means, finding spiritual truth through awareness of the sheer beauty of their surroundings.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Henry David Thoreau<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Group<br><b>Published:</b> 05/30/2006<br><b>Pages:</b> 93<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.20lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.00h x 4.30w x 0.30d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780143037583<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Library Journal</i> 07/01/2006 pg. 122<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Henry David Thoreau</b> was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott