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Title: Doesn't hold up
Review: This book chronicles Thoreau's 2 years in the "wilderness" building a cabin and farming a garden - he never mentions that the "wilderness" was just two miles outside his home town. The book doesn't hold up to scrutiny - for example, he claims that he dug a 5' x 7' root cellar into the side of a mountain in only two hours of digging with a shovel. If you enjoy reading expense ledgers accurate to a fraction of a penny, by all means get this book.
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