May 21, 1999

'Thoreau's Country: Journey Through a Transformed Landscape'

By NINA C. AYOUB

When David R. Foster went to build a cabin in the deep woods of northern Vermont, he took along a literary companion: Henry David Thoreau. But reading Thoreau's journals was a strangely disillusioning experience, he recalls. Thoreau's musings on life at Walden Pond did not mesh with Mr. Foster's sense of solitude and loneliness in the "quiet and continuous forest."

By 1845,

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