Review: Searching fornThoreau

Searching for Thoreau: On the Trails and Shores of Wild New England By Tom Slayton. Images of the Past, 2007, 208 pp. Henry David Thoreau is a major American figure today, an object of adoration to his many followers, the subject of numerous books. �Why?� asks Tom Slayton, in Searching for Thoreau. �Why is Henry David Thoreau, who was regarded as�at best�a minor disciple of Emerson while alive, now so vitally important to our contemporary experience? Why is he the only Transcendentalist we st...