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Writer hopes travels in Thoreau's footsteps will spark interest in the author

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From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20080217
Author:John Curran Associated Press

MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Tom Slayton set out hoping to renew interest in Henry David Thoreau, using his feet and his pen.

It turned out that following Thoreau's footsteps to Cape Cod, Walden Pond and Maine's Mount Katahdin burnished his own admiration of the "Walden" author. Now, he hopes the fruit of his travels -- a book titled "Searching for Thoreau: On the Trails and Shores of Wild New England" -- will do the same for others.

"What I hope the book does is give people intimate access to Thoreau, to make him approachable to them," he said recently. "Once people make his acquaintance, he's such a ...

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