A review by doriastories
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond by Michael Sims

4.0

Lovely and descriptive, a revealing elegy to this beloved home-grown American philosopher. Thoreau's brief life was relatively uneventful, when viewed dispassionately from a distance. But his internal world, reflecting a state of constant wonder and discovery, reveals a mind ever-fresh and responsive to every living thing with which he came into contact. Archaeological artifacts, pine trees, humans, birds, bodies of water - all were viewed with the curiosity of a scientist and the profundity of a dreamer. The book itself is written simply and invitingly, and was truly a pleasure to read.