The Other "Hermit" of Thoreau's Walden Pond: The Sojourn of Edmond Stuart Hotham. By Terry Barkley. Savas Beatie, 2019, 120 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tells the story of Edmond Hotham, who lived for six months at Walden Pond, during the winter of 1868-1869. His sojourn was the first and only time someone aimed to emulate Thoreau's experiment in simplicity, within a few yards of where he had done it. As new book.