Henry David Thoreau

When he was a boy Henry David Thoreau was always somewhat different from his peers, and this state of affairs did not change when he grew up. He was attracted to new ideas and to new ways of looking at the world. He questioned the actions of the government, and he even went so far to refuse to pay his taxes because he did not want his money to be used to pay for a war. Henry David Thoreau wrote a book that had a profund effect on many people all over the world. Find out more about this special man in the books below.