When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessons -- of learning our own backyard, re-wilding, loving nature, self-reliance, and civil disobedience -- hold a secret that could help save us as we face the greater crisis of climate. This book was reviewed in the Fall 2021 issue of the Thoreau Society Bulletin (TSB 315).
Torrey House Press, 2021. Paperback, 377 pp.