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 Coast, speak with a young John Muir in the
Yosemite Valley, stop off in Salt Lake City for a meeting with
Brigham Young, and encounter a diversity of communities and
cultures that would challenge their Yankee prejudices.Based on
original research employing newly discovered documents, The
California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson maps the public story of
this group's travels onto the private story of Emerson's final
years, as aphasia set in and increasingly robbed him of his words.
Engaging and compelling, this travelogue makes it clear that
Emerson was still capable of wonder, surprise, and friendship,
debunking the presumed darkness of his last decade.
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