Walden - Henry David ThoreauIn 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 and fulfilment to be found in the wilderness, and his philosophical and political motivations for rejecting the materialism which continues to define our modern world.