Description "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.
However, stresses Barkley, "Neither the world nor even most avid Thoreauvians know about Edmond Hotham\'s six-months at Walden Pond during the winter of 1868-.
Henry David Thoreau\'s experiment there from 1845-1847 is widely known and immortalized in his classic Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854).
Description "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