Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson

"Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward," Thoreau invites his readers in Walden, "till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which

As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Henry David Thoreau was keenly aware of the many ways in which humans had altered the waterways and meadows of hi

The first guidebook to the landscape and history of the literary shrine to Thoreau, Walden Pond.

Chronicles the history of kettle lakes in the United States, including how they form, the different ways that Americans have used them throughout history, and t