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"Walden. Yesterday I emerged here to reside in." That admittance from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it commenced, would independently be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His try to "live deliberately" in a tiny woods at the border of his hometown of Concord is a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there is a lot more to Thoreau than his simple experiment in living at Walden Fish pond. A member of the lively intellectual circle devoted to his neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson, he was also an ardent naturalist, a manual laborer and inventor, a radical political activist, and more. Many books have taken up various aspects of Thoreau's personality and achievements, but, as Laura Dassow Surfaces creates, "Thoreau has never been captured between comforters; he was too quixotic, mischievous, many-sided." 2 hundred years after his beginning, and two decades after the previous full-scale biography, Surfaces restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, uplifting complexity.
