Henry David Thoreau died on May 6th, 1862 at the tragically early age of just 44. In the decades that followed he would be regarded as one of America’s greatest writers. Thoreau spent his last years revising and editing his unpublished works. His health now fell into an irreversible decline with only short periods of remission. In 1859, following a late-night excursion to count the rings of tree stumps during a rain storm, he fell ill with bronchitis. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Tragically his life and career were short. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. A noted Abolitionist Thoreau was a man to stand by his principles regardless of the minority view he might be holding. Eventually his published writings were to celebrate this area and his own philosophies. He was deeply influenced by Nature and especially the Walden woods. Thoreau was a philosopher of nature and how it affected the human condition. On graduating the normal professions left him unmoved and, after a period teaching at his own school, a growing friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson moved his career onto that of writer and observer of nature. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 18 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathematics, and science. Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts.
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