The Fortean Thoreau: Scientific Anomalies in ‘Walden’ and Other Books
4.7.19 Literature is rich with references to natural anomalies—Emily Brontë, Poe and Byron are just a few anomaly-heavy authors who spring to mind—that are uncatalogued and too easily forgotten as fiction or dismissed as tropes. A classic overlooked example is an author who was somewhat of a living anomaly himself, Henry David Thoreau.