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World Service,4 mins

Translating Thoreau’s Walden into Farsi

Boston Calling

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Alireza Taghdarreh’s decade-long endeavour to translate Henry David Thoreau’s Walden into Farsi has turned into a global cultural exchange. Image: Replica of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Credit: PRI’s The World

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