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Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and
ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history,
and civil liberties. I wrote The
Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
[Bloomsbury, $27.00] to resurrect his everyday life before he became a
writer--when he was still a yearning, struggling nobody like the rest of us. In
the century and a half since Thoreau's death in 1862, at the age of 44,
millions of people around the world have enjoyed Walden and his other books.
Understandably, however, many details of his life are unknown to most readers.
Here are seven fascinating aspects of Thoreau's life that we have forgotten.
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