Days of Henry Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau is generally remembered as the author of Walden and "e;Civil Disobedience,"e; a recluse of the woods and a political protester who once went to jail. To his contemporaries he was a minor disciple of Emerson; he has since joined the ranks of America's most respected and beloved writers. Few, however, really know the complexity of the man they revere-wanderer and scholar, natural...