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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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"--