A Yankee in Canada with Anti Slavery and Reform Papers

1866. Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, best-known for his autobiographical story of life in the woods, Walden. Thoreau was one of the leading personalities in New England Transcendentalism. His Civil Disobedience influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. This collection of Thoreau's writings is most notable for the inclusion of the highly influential essay Civil Disobedience as well as Life without Principal. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.