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<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>How does one grieve or heal from the loss of loved ones? Nineteenth Century Transcendentalist philosophers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson each made sense of personal tragedies through communion with nature. So also did a young Theodore Roosevelt turn to wilderness to alleviate suffering. </em><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>OUTCAST</em></strong><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> taps into the writings and lived experiences of Thoreau Emerson and Roosevelt to help its author cope with loss betrayal rejection and loss of community following his 2014 arrest for sexual touching; crimes for which he maintains his innocence to this day.</em></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This introspective book teaches the key doctrines of American Transcendentalism as a healing agent for social alienation as applied by the author in an attempt to overcome his personal agony which followed from misplaced allegations and unceremonious ouster.</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>OUTCAST </em></strong><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is the search for meaning of a former philosophy professor lawyer legislator and decorated Boy Scout leader while on pilgrimages made by foot kayak and bicycle to wilderness sites that proved historically significant to the healing consolation and enlightenment of Thoreau Emerson and Roosevelt.</em></p><p></p>