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This graphic novel, narrated in Thoreau's own words, weaves together elements from "Walden, " "Civil disobedience, " "Walking, " and Thoreau's journals to tell the story of his two years in the woods and of the night he spent in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax.
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In 1897, famed explorer Robert Peary took six Eskimos from their homes in Greenland to be "presented" to the American Museum of Natural History in New York as a living exhibit. Among the six were a father and a son. Soon, four were dead, including the father, Qisuk ("Smiler"), whose bones were put on display, unbeknownst to the son. One survivor returned to Greenland. And the other -- the young boy -- remained, the only Eskimo in New York for twelve...
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