The Day Henry David Thoreau Died

"The Day Thoreau Died"
Cape Cod Times, May 6, 2008

CAPE COD -- The author of Cape Cod made us famous; He walked the entire length four times.

On this day in 1862, Henry David Thoreau died. He was born on July 12, 1817 and died on May 6, 1862 two months shy of his 46th birthday.

Thoreau was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher. Thoreau walked the length of Cape Cod on four separate occasions from 1849 to 1857. In Cape Cod, the book inspired by these visits, Thoreau heralds the seashore as a middle ground between nature and civilization where our vision of the human voyage can stretch beyond the horizon. ... ©

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