Imagines what it would have been like to spend a day with Henry David Thoreau at his secluded cabin by Walden Pond, where he recorded his reflections on the natural world.
Presents nineteenth-century American author Henry David Thoreau's reflections on living alone among nature for two years on Walden Pond in Massachusetts, and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and an ecological appendix.
Poet Ian Marshall extracts nearly three hundred haiku verses from within Henry David Thoreau's "Walden, " and discusses the haiku form of poetry, Thoreau's text, and American nature writing.