The book records Thoreau's experiences in a hand-built cabin, where he spent two years in partial seclusion, at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. ... His "The Gold Bug" (1843) tells the tale of a search for buried treasure on a South Carolina island lV. ... In 1899 Robinson moved to New York City, where his volume Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902) attracted little interest. ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Another reason that may have contributed to the rise of missionaries in Africa was that the industrial society from the emergence of cities and towns created a "godless" society where Christians began to feel the government was not putting enough emphasis on the church and religious life. ... From a traveller's perspective, tales arose of the stereotype of the African as barbarous, prone to excessive sexual desire, lazy, untrustworthy and even cannibalistic. ...

• Word Count: 2491
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate