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Rewalking Thoreau and Asia: 'light from the east' for 'a very Yankee sort of oriental'.(Henry David Thoreau)(Biography)

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From: Philosophy East and West
Date: 20070101
Author:Scott, David

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) is well known as the author of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854). He is also known for his curiosity about Asia, what Versluis dubbed his "sauntering eastwards." (1) Thoreau's curiosity about Asia was part of a wider Transcendentalist engagement with the East, recognized in John Orr's 1882 comment that "Transcendentalism imported its bit of Oriental sky, and called men to admire the constellations it contained." (2) Thoreau in turn had a "saucy Orientalism." (3) As he put it in "Walking," his ...

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