Name: Being Alive
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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Thoreau returns to society, taking on roles as surveyor, scientist and abolitionist, and makes two more Maine trips; Thoreau writes with renewed energy as he faces a lifelong illness.

Henry David Thoreau

Several More Lives to Live

Thoreau finds solace in nature and writes two books at Walden Pond; over his two-year stay, an expedition to Maine and an act of civil disobedience protesting slavery reshape his idea of freedom.

Being Alive

Henry David Thoreau pursues a career as an author, retreating to a cabin in the woods to live simply and write.

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