"Thoreau's descriptions, and his insights into elemental force, are hypnotic. This beautifully designed book is easy to pick up, hard to put down".--David Schne

During his two-year residence at Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau became keenly aware of the natural world that surrounded him. Entries from his journals reflec

Branka Arsi shows that Thoreau developed a theory of vitalism in response to his brother s death. Through grieving, he came to see life as a generative force in