August 16, 2002

Thoreau in the Everglades

By ANDREW FURMAN

Leading your literature-and-the-environment class on a field trip to the Everglades in the middle of August is not a great idea. But I had been assigned to teach the course during the summer session, and, early in my academic career, somewhat fatuously, I had resolved to be a "cool" professor -- the sort who naturally would wake up before dawn to lead a bird-watching expedition sure to render Thoreau's Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854) more palpable and meaningful to his class.

So

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