A Great Read

I read an interesting book this weekend - The Thoreau You Don't Know: What The Prophet Of Environmentalism Really Meant. While the title might suggest to some that the author, Robert Sullivan, is interested in presenting Thoreau as someone other than the "profit of environmentalism", what the book is really about is Sullivan's argument that Thoreau's Walden is not exactly the book we think we remember from high school/ college. While most people - including myself- recall Thoreau as a cranky hermit, Sullivan argues that Walden is not a rural book at all, but an urban one, by which he means that the primary focus of Walden is not seclusion but community. Fascinating read. It prompted me to dig out my copy of Walden and read it all over again - this time from a fresh perspective...