A Yankee In Canada (Illustrated and Annotated)

A Yankee In Canada (Illustrated and Annotated)

by Henry David Thoreau
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 07/04/2016

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A Yankee in Canada: Illustrated and Annotated Edition by Henry David Thoreau.


Henry Thoreau traveled to Canada from September 25 to October 2, 1850. His account was first published serially in 1853, in Putnam's Monthly, as "An Excursion to Canada", then in book form in 1866, in A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers.


In the summer of 1846, tax collector Samuel Staples arrested Thoreau for his refusal to pay the poll tax, interrupting Thoreau’s tranquil residence at Walden Pond for a day. Thoreau had not paid the tax for several years, as a form of protest against slavery and the government’s recent declaration of war against Mexico.


The townspeople were so curious about Thoreau’s refusal that he felt compelled to explain his actions in a public lecture in January 1848. It is here collected for the first time in book form under its now-famous title, “Civil Disobedience.”

ISBN:
9788892590335
9788892590335
Category:
Political activism
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-04-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Publisher s13364
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born in Concord, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He became a follower and a friend of Emerson, and described himself as a mystic and a transcendentalist.

Although he published only two books in his lifetime, Walden is a literary masterpeice and one of the most significant books of the nineteenth century.

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