Includes the complete text of Walden, selections from A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A Plea for Captain John Brown, and Civil Disobedience.
Presents five essays by the nineteenth-century American author, discussing such issues as the conflict between personal conscience and civil law, the importance of individualism, the practice of slavery, and the preservation of nature.
Recounts the March to the Sea, in which, Mohandas Gandi and seventy protesters marched from Ahmedabad to Dandi, in twenty-four days, to protest the laws and taxes that Great Britain put on salt.
Presents Henry David Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" and provides information on its social and historical context, its immediate impact, and its legacy.