The Other "Hermit" of Thoreau's Walden Pond: The Sojourn of Edmond Stuart Hotham

by Terry Barkley

Book Overview

"I didn't realize there was another 'hermit' of Walden Pond " is the usual response author-historian Terry Barkley receives when he tells someone the subject of his new book. Henry David Thoreau's experiment there from 1845-1847 is widely known and immortalized in his classic Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854). However, stresses Barkley, "Neither the world nor even most avid Thoreauvians know about Edmond Hotham's six-months at Walden Pond during...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611214815
• ISBN13: 9781611214819
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Savas Beatie
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"