On a frigid January night some years ago, a friend and I snuck into a Massachusetts state preserve, stripped naked, and charged into Walden Pond. For a few exhilarating, painful moments we swam, and I ...

Two historians hired as interpreters at Walden Pond share their knowledge and deep enthusiasm for Henry David Thoreau.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Walden + Civil Disobedience + Slavery in Massachusetts" contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents ...

Walden details Thoreaus experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built in the woods near Walden Pond, Massachusetts. Thoreau compresses the time into a single ...

Henry David Thoreau was born on this day 200 years ago. A few decades later, aged 32, he wrote an essay that fundamentally influenced twentieth-century protest. "Civil Disobedience," originally titled ...