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2) Walden
5) Cape Cod
One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalism… "so as to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
...19) The Maine woods
"We will walk on our own feet;
we will work with our own hands;
we will speak our own minds."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar," 1837
From the start of transcendentalism and America's intellectual renaissance in the 1830s, to the Civil War and beyond, the story of four extraordinary friends whose lives shaped a nation
"Beginning in the 1830s, coincidences that seem almost miraculous