num_pages: 320
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.
language: English
title: Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place
titlecomplete: Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place
genres: Nature, Walking, Nonfiction, Travel
ratings_count: 57
publisher: Counterpoint