| Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place Contributor(s): Mitchell, John H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0201154870 ISBN-13: 9780201154870 Publisher: Catapult OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1997 Annotation: Starting from an ancient burial site, John Mitchell and friends began a 15-mile hike to the tomb of Henry David Thoreau. They sauntered through the landscape where our literature and history began--the woods favored by the Transcendentalists. On each mile, they explore not only the landscape before them but also certain timeless themes. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays - Travel | United States - Northeast - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - Travel | Europe - France |
| Dewey: 917.444 |
| LCCN: 96051483 |
| Lexile Measure: 1280 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.32" W x 8.15" (0.73 lbs) 316 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An exploration of sense of place, what it means, how it developed, and why it matters. Based on an eighteenth-century literary device in which a group of friends undertake a walking tour and discuss a certain subject, this wide-ranging story emerges from the author s fifteen-mile bushwhack through woods, backyards, and marshes from a hilltop in Westford, Massachusetts, to the town of Concord, Massachusetts trespassing all along the way. A mock epic, complete with encounters with armed mercenaries and vicious dogs, the book covers all the aspects of place art, literature, myth, and even music. |
