Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Excursions Near and Far
Wild Apples
My Guidebook to Japan
Walden and the Black Quest for Nature, or My Summer Vacation with Big Sis
Twenty-Four Hours on Pea Island
The Fragility of Solitude
My Failure
Without
Deliberate Living
To a Slower Life
Walden as an Art
The Year of Not Living Thickly
If I Had Loved Her Less
Following Thoreau
Directions of His Dreams
Thoreau on Ice
"The Record of My Love": Thoreau and the Art of Science
The Apples of His Eye
You Bring the Weather with You

Thoreau in Love
Practicalities
As for Clothing
On Pencils and Purpose
The House That Thoreau Built
Is It Worth the While?
A Few Elements of American Style
At Walden
Concord Is a Kind of Word
Dolittle's Rebellion
Ice, for the Time Being
Walden at Midnight: Three Walks with Thoreau
Simplify, Simplify
Notes
Contributors
Credits