Revisiting Thoreau's Inner Search

Historian and naturalist Kevin Dann offers a biography of Henry David Thoreau that looks past the familiar Walden Pond story to trace his lifelong search for meaning through close observation of the natural world. Drawing on Thoreau's own journals and writing, the book follows the philosopher's development as a thinker, naturalist and quiet radical of nineteenth century New England.

It suits readers who already know Walden and want a fuller picture of the man behind it, as well as anyone drawn to the history of American nature writing and transcendentalist thought.

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