The perfect books for the true book lover Penguins Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of historys most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique typedriven design that highlights the bookmakers art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world.Thoreaus account of his solitary and selfsufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movementa call to his fellow men to abandon their striving materialistic existences of quiet desperation for a simple life within their means finding spiritual truth through awareness of the sheer beauty of their surroundings. show more