“Why not give another story by this author a chance?”
I would say that the most logical sequence for Sarah's essay is the history of Tibet and Nepal; famous mountain climbers who have scaled Mount Everest;
Thoreau moved to the woods of Walden Pond to learn to live deliberately. ... I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
To clear up myths about America
To advertise the New World
Propaganda- land of virtue, piety, and prosperity