Renowned nineteenth-century naturalist, poet and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau's connection to nature was tied to his feelings of loss. Nature provided solace for these losses, but the world was changing around him. Haunting in its quiet spaces, this novel portrays this tension of nature and progress and its effect on a singular man. It is a novel uncommon in its combination of scope and brevity, in its communion with its human subject, and its reflections on an astonishing yet changing world.
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