Dva roky, dva mesiace a dva dni strávil americký básnik a mysliteľ Henry David Thoreau na samote v prírode, vo vlastnoručne zhotovenej chatrči pri jazere Walden. K životu bez civilizačných výdobytkov ho priviedla túžba porozumieť svetu, ktorého bol... Zobraziť viac
Henry Thoreau is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book... Zobraziť viac
In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands.... Zobraziť viac
