The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A vivid and painstakingly researched account of Emerson’s late-in-life, seven-week trek across the North American continent in 1871.” — New York Review of Books In the spring of 1871, Ralph Waldo Emerson boarded a train in Concord, Massachusetts, bound for a month-and-a-half-long tour of California—an interlude that became one of the highlights of his life. On their journey across the American West, he and his companions would take in breathtaking vistas in the Rockies and along the Pacific Coa