Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis
- SIGNED Paperback
- Salt Lake City, UT: Torrey House Press, 2021
Salt Lake City, UT: Torrey House Press, 2021. First edition. Paperback. New. SIGNED. 377pp. Octavo. Green pictorial wraps. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page.
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.
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.