Letters to a Spiritual Seeker

The writing of Henry David Thoreau is as full of life today as it was when he published Walden one hundred years ago. In seeking to understand nature Thoreau sought to lead a fresh simple life with God. In 1848 a seeker named Harrison Blake yearning for a spiritual life of his own asked the then-fledgling writer for guidance. The fifty letters that ensued collected here for the first time in their own volume by Thoreau specialist Bradley P. Dean are by turns earnest oracular witty playful practical and deeply insightful and inspiring as one would expect from America''s best prose stylist and great moral philosopher.