A fugitive in Walden Woods
By: Norman Lock
Edition: First edition.
Series: The American novels series
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781942658221
Subjects: Fiction; Fugitive slaves; Abolitionists; American Authors; Underground Railroad
Description: "The fourth self-contained volume of The American Novels series tells the story of Samuel Long, who escapes slavery in Virginia by traveling the Underground Railroad to Walden Woods, where he encounters Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Lloyd Garrison, and other transcendentalists and abolitionists. While Long will experience his coming-of-age at Walden Pond, his hosts will receive a lesson on human dignity, culminating in a climactic act of civil disobedience"-- Provided by publisher.