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Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780201154870
Publisher: Catapult
Published: Mar 11 1997
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.15
Language: English
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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