The Days of Henry Thoreau: A BiographyHenry David Thoreau is generally remembered as the author of Walden and Civil Disobedience, a recluse of the woods and a political protester who once went to jail. To his contemporaries he was a minor disciple of Emerson; he has since joined the ranks of America's most respected and beloved writers. Few, however, really know the complexity of the man they revere wanderer and scholar, naturalist and humorist, teacher and surveyor, abolitionist and