
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 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 Walden is his personal account of the experience in which he documents the beauty & fulfilment to be found in the wilderness & his philosophical & political motivations for rejecting the materialism which continues to define our modern world