In the Course of My Walks

by August Derleth, Richard Quinney (Editor)

August Derleth lived all of his life in Sauk City, Wisconsin, a source of inspiration and substance for his vast range of writing, including In the Course of My Walks . While exploring the meaning of the lives of the men and women in the village on the banks of the Wisconsin River, the natural background—fields, woods, plants, marshes, water, and the wild creatures of the land and sky—was ever present in his writing. Derleth identified with Henry David Thoreau’s ideas of living deliberately and confronting only the essentials in life. He thought of his own home near the Wisconsin River as “Walden West.” In the Course of My Walks is a shining representation of his astute and contemplative regional writing.

88 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the Cosmic Horror genre, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography

A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialize life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth can also be considered a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing

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Reviews

[Cari Ritzenthaler]

This was a very interesting and artistic book. I'm not sure I was connected enough to nature and my place in it to fully appreciate this work. I would like to try again one day though.