Review: Walking towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place

Walking towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place By John Hanson Mitchell. Addison-Wesley, 1995, 301 pp. There never was a more passionate pilgrim, a deeper explorer of the wilderness of the nearby than Henry Thoreau, says John Hanson Mitchell in this delightful account of a saunter, as he calls his hike from Westford, Massachusetts to Concord. Mitchell, a naturalist, is himself an explorer of the wilderness of the nearbythree of his books explore one square mile in eastern Massachusett...