Road to Walden

<b>The acclaimed author of Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau traverses on foot from Manhattan to Walden Pond retracing Thoreau's steps and unlocking the practical principles of the mystic's life in the woods.</b> <p/>When Henry David Thoreau launched his experiment in living at Walden Pond he began by walking beyond the narrow limits of his neighbors simply by putting himself at a mile remove from Concord's bourgeois epicenter - and a thousand-mile remove from stasis complacency and conformity. Kevin Dann emulates and extends Thoreau's experiment in radical self-education. Alternating between personal anecdotes from his spring 2017 walking pilgrimage and other traveler encounters and episodes told by Thoreau Dann structures his book around 12 injunctions--distillations of seminal stories about overcoming convention and stasis. In this essential reading for every Thoreau enthusiast naturalist and historian Kevin Dann brings to life an essential American icon in refreshing and modern way.