{"product_id":"the-road-to-walden-12-life-lessons-from-a-sojourn-to-thoreaus-cabin-9780143132837","title":"The Road to Walden 12 Life Lessons from a Sojourn to Thoreaus Cabin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed author of Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau traverses on foot from Manhattan to Walden Pond, retracing Thoreau's steps and unlocking the practical principles of the mystic's life in the woods.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Henry David Thoreau launched his experiment in living at Walden Pond, he began by walking beyond the narrow limits of his neighbors, simply by putting himself at a mile remove from Concord's bourgeois epicenter - and a thousand-mile remove from stasis, complacency, and conformity. Kevin Dann emulates and extends Thoreau's experiment in radical self-education. Alternating between personal anecdotes from his spring 2017 walking pilgrimage and other traveler encounters and episodes told by Thoreau, Dann structures his book around 12 injunctions--distillations of seminal stories about overcoming convention and stasis. In this essential reading for every Thoreau enthusiast, naturalist and historian Kevin Dann brings to life an essential Am","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733806145879,"sku":"9780143132837","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-road-to-walden-12-life-lessons-from-a-sojourn-to-thoreaus-cabin-9780143132837","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}