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Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place
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Walking Towards Walden is an exploration of the 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.
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John Hanson Mitchell
John Hanson Mitchell is the editor of Sanctuary, the journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and the author of The Paradise of All These Parts and Ceremonial Time.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A walk to Concord, weaving tales of the people who lived along the way with tales of other pilgrimages and other places, finding linkages and resonances that give the movement meaning. As with many walks, and many pilgrimages, the way is more important than the destination.
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