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The Walk to Land's End
Cape Cod
... wild ... windy ... beautiful ...
... "the bare and bended arm of Massachussets" ...
Cape Cod
... place of the first settlement in New England ...
... land where the fires of American freedom began to burn ...
Cape Cod
... scene of stormy dangers and peaceful strength ...
Where a man may stand and put all America behind him
The Ladder Series books are specially prepared editions of well-known American books. They have been made easier-to-read for the enjoyment of readers for whom English is a second language.
The Series is built on a "ladder" of five steps - from 1000 to 5000 different English words. The books have been shortened but they keep the ideas, facts and pleasures found in them by American readers.
This book uses 2000 English words. Some words in the book are above this step and will be found written in boldface letters. They are explained in the Glossary at the back.
The publisher hopes the reader will enjoy this Series, while going up the ladder to more difficult reading.
... wild ... windy ... beautiful ...
... "the bare and bended arm of Massachussets" ...
Cape Cod
... place of the first settlement in New England ...
... land where the fires of American freedom began to burn ...
Cape Cod
... scene of stormy dangers and peaceful strength ...
Where a man may stand and put all America behind him
The Ladder Series books are specially prepared editions of well-known American books. They have been made easier-to-read for the enjoyment of readers for whom English is a second language.
The Series is built on a "ladder" of five steps - from 1000 to 5000 different English words. The books have been shortened but they keep the ideas, facts and pleasures found in them by American readers.
This book uses 2000 English words. Some words in the book are above this step and will be found written in boldface letters. They are explained in the Glossary at the back.
The publisher hopes the reader will enjoy this Series, while going up the ladder to more difficult reading.
126 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1865
About the author
Henry David Thoreau
2,739 books7,089 followersHenry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. Becoming a Transcendentalist and good friend of Emerson, Thoreau lived the life of simplicity he advocated in his writings. His two-year experience in a hut in Walden, on land owned by Emerson, resulted in the classic, Walden: Life in the Woods (1854). During his sojourn there, Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican war, for which he was jailed overnight. His activist convictions were expressed in the groundbreaking On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849). In a diary he noted his disapproval of attempts to convert the Algonquins "from their own superstitions to new ones." In a journal he noted dryly that it is appropriate for a church to be the ugliest building in a village, "because it is the one in which human nature stoops to the lowest and is the most disgraced." (Cited by James A. Haught in 2000 Years of Disbelief.) When Parker Pillsbury sought to talk about religion with Thoreau as he was dying from tuberculosis, Thoreau replied: "One world at a time."
Thoreau's philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. D. 1862.
More: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tho...
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Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. Becoming a Transcendentalist and good friend of Emerson, Thoreau lived the life of simplicity he advocated in his writings. His two-year experience in a hut in Walden, on land owned by Emerson, resulted in the classic, Walden: Life in the Woods (1854). During his sojourn there, Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican war, for which he was jailed overnight. His activist convictions were expressed in the groundbreaking On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849). In a diary he noted his disapproval of attempts to convert the Algonquins "from their own superstitions to new ones." In a journal he noted dryly that it is appropriate for a church to be the ugliest building in a village, "because it is the one in which human nature stoops to the lowest and is the most disgraced." (Cited by James A. Haught in 2000 Years of Disbelief.) When Parker Pillsbury sought to talk about religion with Thoreau as he was dying from tuberculosis, Thoreau replied: "One world at a time."
Thoreau's philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. D. 1862.
More: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tho...
http://thoreau.eserver.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Da...
http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu....
http://www.biography.com/people/henry...
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April 22, 2012
Fairly easy to read for one whose first language is not English, due to its "Ladder" editing. The book offered valuable insight on how the pilgrims saw one of the first lands they set their feet on, as compared to how the author finds it in his time. Life at sea and near it, the tribute natives pay to storms, as well as the depiction of the place where man may stand and put all America behind him make this a book worth reading.
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